Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17233 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-01
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

James Delingpole, Mail on Sunday
'Dark, witty, grim, caustic, despairing, wise, searingly honest and beautifully written... The best informed and most exciting personal account of the Troubles ever published.'

Mary Kenny, Literary Review
'The best book you will ever read about Belfast in the 1970s... Ghastly, hilarious, black with humour, black with death and cruelty, and lucid with humanity.'

Tom Adair, Scotsman
'Livid and lucid... You almost feel you are walking those streets, taking hasty cover as a cannonade of machine gun fire barks fatally into the silence.'

Customer Reviews

Not worth reading
According to Kevin the conflict had nothing to do with beliefs or politics or discrimination. It seems the British press had it right all those years and the real problem was two awful tribes that just hated each other. It seems the people I thought were brave men and women who stood up against oppression and imperialism were actually just idiots.

Barely believable
This is a well constructed and fascinating story. It is only when you consider the likelihood of anyone having been so close to so many deaths and remembering the fine detail of each that you appreciate that it is indeed a story.
Virtually none of these dramatic episodes can be confirmed by a living witness.
The book presents no analysis of events beyond the madness of the Irish. There is no book I more regret buying on the stregth of reviews. I don't believe one word of it.

Amazing!
This is very easy to read but certainlly not void of information and fasinating facts. Terrifying violence and written with amazing passion, it's fantastic.