The Yank: The True Story of a Former US Marine in the Irish Republican Army

1975: A young Irish-American man joins an elite US Marine unit to get the most intensive military training possible-then joins the Irish Republican Army, during the days of some of the bloodiest fighting ever in the Irish-British conflict.



In a powerful, brutally honest recounting of his experience, John Crawley details, first, the grueling challenges of his Marine Corps training, then how he put his hard-earned skills to use back in Ireland in service of the Provos. It is a story that will ...