Download or read book Michael Collins: The Lost Leader written by Margery Forester and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2006-09-12 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In print continuously for more than thirty years, this book is long established as a reliable and affectionate portrait of Michael Collins. First, published in 1971, its great strength is that the author was able to interview Collins' surviving contemporaries and was offered unrestricted access to personal and family material. Michael Collins: The Lost Leader has been praised by authorities such as Robert Kee and Maurice Manning and remains compulsive reading even today.