PositiveThe Irish TimesThis multinational and multi-ethnic plot has long been dismissed by the few historians who have deigned to notice it as a quixotic oddity dreamt up by deluded dreamers and marginalised psychopaths...It has taken more than two centuries but in Gatrell’s wonderful book we have the first convincing full-length study of how and why this motley crew of British, Irish and Jamaican revolutionaries found themselves armed to the teeth in a dingy cowshed dreaming of a new world.
