Volume Two, Treaty : Collins arrives in London to negotiate the terms of the treaty with Lloyd George and Churchill and takes several trips back to Dublin to confer with de Valera. Eventually, debates and votes on the treaty in the British Parliament and the Dáil, the Irish parliament, decide the treaty’s fate. In the early 20th Century Michael Collins led the world’s first true counter-intelligence agency in a successful campaign to remove the British from Ireland. In October of 1921, at the age of 31, he went to London to negotiate the terms of a treaty with Prime Minister Lloyd George and the then Secretary of Colonies, the world-famous Winston Churchill. This is the story of the circumstances that brought these men together and led to the creation of the Irish Free State. Over the course of three volumes, the lives, loves, and friendships of these two remarkable men are seen to influence the Anglo-Irish War and political struggles that resulted in the treaty that Collins held as “The Stepping Stone to Freedom.” Volume One, Truce, describes the events in the Anglo-Irish War, from Bloody Sunday to the truce that led to the negotiations for a treaty. Volume Two, Treaty, covers the period when Collins was in London negotiating the terms of the treaty with Lloyd George and Churchill and closes with the debates and vote on the treaty in the Dáil, the Irish parliament. Volume Three, Freedom, describes the new Provisional Government in Dublin, Churchill’s eloquent support in Parliament of the Irish Constitution drafted by Collins, the general election in Ireland and the ensuing civil war.