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On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active
Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside
to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty
policeman in front of his young son. In Anatomy of a Killing,
award-winning journalist Ian Cobain documents the hours leading up
to the killing, and the months and years of violence, attrition and
rebellion surrounding it. Drawing on interviews with those most
closely involved, as well as court files, police notes, military
intelligence reports, IRA strategy papers, memoirs and government
records, this is a unique perspective on the Troubles, and a
revelatory work of investigative journalism.
In 1889, the first Official Secrets Act was passed, creating
offences of 'disclosure of information' and 'breach of official
trust'. It limited and monitored what the public could, and should,
be told. Since then a culture of secrecy has flourished. As
successive governments have been selective about what they choose
to share with the public, we have been left with a distorted and
incomplete understanding not only of the workings of the state but
of our nation's culture and its past. In this important book, Ian
Cobain offers a fresh appraisal of some of the key moments in
British history since the end of WWII, including: the measures
taken to conceal the existence of Bletchley Park and its successor,
GCHQ, for three decades; the unreported wars fought during the
1960s and 1970s; the hidden links with terrorist cells during the
Troubles; the sometimes opaque workings of the criminal justice
system; the state's peacetime surveillance techniques; and the
convenient loopholes in the Freedom of Information Act. Drawing on
previously unseen material and rigorous research, The History
Thieves reveals how a complex bureaucratic machine has grown up
around the British state, allowing governments to evade
accountability and their secrets to be buried.
The official line is clear: the UK does not 'participate in,
solicit, encourage or condone' torture. And yet, the evidence is
irrefutable: when faced with potential threats to our national
security, the gloves always come off. Drawing on previously unseen
official documents, and the accounts of witnesses, victims and
experts, prize-winning investigative journalist Ian Cobain looks
beyond the cover-ups and the equivocations, to get to the truth.
From WWII to the War on Terror, via Kenya and Northern Ireland,
Cruel Britannia shows how the British have repeatedly and
systematically resorted to torture, bending the law where they can,
and issuing categorical denials all the while. What emerges is a
picture of Britain that challenges our complacency and exposes the
lie behind our reputation for fair play.
On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active
Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside
to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty
policeman in front of his young son. In Anatomy of a Killing,
award-winning journalist Ian Cobain documents the hours leading up
to the killing, and the months and years of violence, attrition and
rebellion surrounding it. Drawing on interviews with those most
closely involved, as well as court files, police notes, military
intelligence reports, IRA strategy papers, memoirs and government
records, this is a unique perspective on the Troubles, and a
revelatory work of investigative journalism.
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