Provides a detailed account of the life of a controversial solder ... engaging ... perceptive.

Sudhirendar blog

Well-researched and very readable, Flinders's book is as fair and balanced a biography of this contentious figure as we are likely to see.

Spectator

Superb

Church Times

Flinders' biography is a well-researched, fully referenced, accurate and balanced life of a very peculiar and controversial Irishman. ... It is to Flinders' credit that he seeks to take a more balanced middle ground, neither brow-beating nor pandering to modern moral rectitude.

Books Ireland Magazine

A thought provoking biography

Keith Simpson MP