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  • Bullets, Bombs and Cups of Tea

    Further Voices of the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98

    by Ken Wharton ...
    This is Ken Wharton's second oral history of the Northern Ireland troubles told again from the perspective of the ordinary British soldier.This book looks deeper into the conflict, utilising stories from new contributors providing revealing and long-forgotten stories of the troubles from the back streets of the Ardoyne to the bandit country of South Armagh. Ken Wharton - himself a former soldier - ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bloody Belfast

    An Oral History of the British Army's War Against the IRA

    by Ken Wharton ...
    Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast's streets.Wharton's work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader can walk the darkened, dangerous streets of the Lower Falls, the Divis Flats and New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved ... Read more

    $19.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Torn Apart

    Fifty Years of the Troubles, 1969-2019

    by Ken Wharton ...
    As the fiftieth anniversary of the Troubles approaches, Ken Wharton takes a thorough look at the start of the Troubles, the precursors and the explosion of violence in 1969 that would last until the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and cost 50,000 casualties and nearly 2,000 civilians' lives across Northern Ireland, the Republic and England. Utterly condemnatory of the Provisional IRA and their ilk, ... Read more

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  • Sir, They're Taking the Kids Indoors

    The British Army in Northern Ireland 1973–74

    by Ken Wharton ...
    The British Army veteran and oral historian presents vivid firsthand accounts of soldiers on the frontlines of the Troubles in the early 1970s.This volume in Ken Wharton's series of oral histories chronicling the conflict in Northern Ireland looks at the bloody period of 1973/4. As with all of Wharton's books, it combines painstaking research with numerous contributions from British soldiers who ... Read more

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  • Wasted Years, Wasted Lives, Volume 2

    The British Army in Northern Ireland 1978–79

    by Ken Wharton ...
    Volume 2 does what it says on the can - it continues from where the first volume left off. It looks at the bloody years of 1978 and 1979. It covers eyewitness accounts from soldiers on the ground and there is the occasional comment from civilians who were living in the troubled province at the time. There are accounts from the IRA atrocity at the la Mon Restaurant when the terrorists used a napalm ... Read more

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  • The Bloodiest Year 1972

    British Soldiers in Northern Ireland, in Their Own Words

    by Ken Wharton ...
    'This is good honest history. Soldiers and civilians alike owe the author a debt of gratitude for telling it like it was.' - Patrick Bishop, best-selling author of 3 ParaKen Wharton's latest book on the Northern Ireland Troubles is, as always, written from the perspective of the British soldier. Here he chronicles the worst year of The Troubles - 1972 - a year in which 172 soldiers died as a ... Read more

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  • A Long Long War

    Voices from the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969–1998

    by Ken Wharton ...
    The author of Bloody Belfast delivers "a vivid and unforgettable record" of the Northern Irish conflict that captures the "true horrors of war" ( Best of British).There are stories from some of the most seminal moments during the troubles in Northern Ireland—the Crossmaglen firefights, the 1988 corporals killings, the Ballygawley bus bombing, and more—told from the perspective of the British ... Read more

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  • Northern Ireland: An Agony Continued

    The British Army and the Troubles 1980–83

    by Ken Wharton ...
    This book is called 'An Agony Continued' because it was simply that: an agony. It was an agony which commenced at the end of the 1960s and as the new decade of the 80s arrived, so the pain, the grief, the loss and the economic destruction of Northern Ireland continued. Little did any of us know at the time, but it was to do so for almost a further two decades. Between January 1980 and December ... Read more

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  • Wasted Years, Wasted Lives Volume 1

    The British Army in Northern Ireland 1975–77

    by Ken Wharton ...
    The first volume in this two-part oral history brings to life the experiences of British Army soldiers during the Troubles in the mid 1970s.British Army veteran Ken Wharton has written extensively on the bitter conflict in Northern Ireland, shedding light on the experiences and sacrifices of British military and police. Though often overlooked by historians, many of these committed soldiers and ... Read more

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  • Another Bloody Chapter in an Endless Civil War

    Northern Ireland and the Troubles, 1984–87

    by Ken Wharton ...
    Four years of bloodshed in mid-1980s Northern Ireland, in the words of British soldiers who experienced it firsthand. Includes photos.Proceeding month-by-month from 1984 through 1987, this historical project provides a deep and detailed portrait of the British military experience in a period of frequent and unpredictable violence as the Provisional IRA grew in financial and logistical strength. As ... Read more

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    Inside Northern Ireland's Special Branch

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    In the early hours of 30 April 2003, twelve armed and uniformed officers accompanied by four plain-clothes detectives burst into Alan Barker's house. They stayed for hours, turning over rooms, seizing documents, impounding computers, files and anything else that interested them. The family were treated as terrorist suspects, the operation resembling so many others in Northern Ireland during the ... Read more

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  • Ten-Thirty-Three

    The Inside Story of Britain's Secret Killing Machine in Northern Ireland

    by Nicholas Davies ...
    This explosive book reveals the conspiracy between British Military Intelligence and the gunman of the UDA who targeted and killed both Republican terrorists and ordinary Catholics.The secret partnership was sanctioned at the highest level of the British government and full details of planned operations, including killings, were passed directly to its Joint Intelligence Committee in London.Ten ... Read more

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