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Brits - The War Against the IRA (Paperback, New Ed)
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Brits - The War Against the IRA (Paperback, New Ed)
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Peter Taylor, a well-informed television journalist who has been
working on the Troubles in Ulster for over 30 years, is an ideal
person to tackle the Irish question. This is the third volume of a
trilogy, preceded by Provos, which appeared in 1997, and Loyalists
two years later. Much of it has been shown on television. This time
Taylor considers Ulster from the British angle. He shows how the
statelet - with about a million Protestant and half a million Roman
Catholic inhabitants, its government machine firmly geared to the
Protestant interest - came to the verge of civil war in 1968-9, a
war which was prevented by the arrival of British troops. He
explains how the Catholics who had hailed the troops as liberators
were persuaded instead to detest them as occupiers. Locally, there
are two interwoven communities, implacably opposed to each other,
neither prepared to believe that the other ever operates in good
faith. They form a part of the United Kingdom, but United Kingdom
politicians are most of them ignorant of the main elements, let
alone the details, of what is going on. As usual in Ireland, the
devil is in the details. These details are spelt out with care and
clarity by an unusually competent author, who has interviewed most
of the principal figures on all three sides and been present at a
number of the most startling occasions. He says nothing indiscreet;
but when he thinks wrong has been done, he does not hesitate to say
so. He gets inside the minds of the officers and soldiers of the
army and the police forces; some of his best sources were in the
little-known and much-feared 14 Intelligence Company ('The
Detachment'), for which the training is so harsh that only 17
qualified out of the first 300 volunteers. Nothing could be more
relevant to present international troubles than this unusually
well-produced account of 30 years' struggle against religious-based
terrorism. (Kirkus UK)
In the final part of his trilogy exploring the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the author talks to undercover soldiers, Special Branch Officers and an MI6 agent, and reveals secrets of the war from the British perspective.
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