Churchill used Collins's tactics

London - Sir Winston Churchill used the tactics of Michael Collins as a blueprint for a British wartime guerrilla force, according…

London - Sir Winston Churchill used the tactics of Michael Collins as a blueprint for a British wartime guerrilla force, according to Churchill's Secret Army, a three-part series on Channel 4 which begins tonight. In one ministerial instruction he said: "We must do to the Germans what Sinn Fein has been doing to us."

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