Peace by Ordeal. An Account, From First-Hand Sources, of the Negotiation and Signature of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921. London: Cape, 1935. First Edition. Pp xii, 399. Green cloth boards in dust jacket. Jacket heavily chipped with partial loss, light wear to cloth, contents in good condition.

Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Author on the front free endpaper.

One of the first comprehensive, scholarly, and relatively objective accounts of the process that fundamentally reshaped the understanding of one of the most critical events in modern Irish and British history: the negotiation and signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921.

Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford (1905–2001) was a British politician, social reformer, author, and philanthropist known for his deeply held, often controversial, moral and Catholic convictions.