This unique story of War of Independence in Ireland recalls how people of opposing objectives became engulfed in situations that ended tragically for them. The story clearly enunciates that the undesired tragedies resulted from a series of torts, each retaliating act ending in miscalculated events which swept the scene onward to a conclusion that allowed no alternatives in its finale. Two women lost their long established lucrative properties in retribution for the heinous crime of captain John Bowen-Colthurst in Dublin during Easter Week, 1916. And a third woman, Mrs. Lindsay, lost her life after a traumatic period of enforced incarceration as a hostage in the hands of the I.R.A. Chauvinistic loyalty to the British regime, the forces of which failed to rescue her, or accede to conditions for her release at the proper time, hastened, eventually, Mrs. Lindsay's execution. On hearing of a prepared ambush, in January 1921, Mrs. Lindsay was motivated by a desire to save, primarily, the lives of young British soldiers, and she asked a priest to inform the I.R.A. who were waiting in ambush to abandon the position, ostensibly to save the lives of other unidentified young men. Her worthy aspirations prompted an interperate act which resulted in the capture of eleven men, not all involved in the ambush, five of whom were later executed and a sixth died of wounds received at the ambush. First Edition 1990.