Product Description

A survey of the IRA's bombing campaign in Britain before and after World War II. The text looks at the IRA's flirtation with Nazism and Eire's wartime neutrality and how that conditioned subsequent British policy towards Ireland, and examines the campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s. It also discusses the political and military mistakes which made British cities the most vunerable in Europe to terrorist attack and why Government agencies failed to eradicate the threat. This book includes material on what the IRA called its "England Department", on how that IRA cell fuctioned and its objectives, and what was behind the IRA's reluctance to denounce the Downing Street Declaration.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #411174 in Books
• Published on: 1996-03-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 421 pages

From the Back Cover
Recognized by Connor Cruise O'Brien as 'the greatest living authority on Irish terrorism', Martin Dillon, the first writer to penetrate the intelligence operations of Irish terrorist organizations, now turns his attention to the IRA's targeting of mainland Britain.

In the first objective and comprehensive survey of its kind, Dillon examines the IRA bombing campaign in Britain before and after the Second World War; the IRA's flirtation with Nazism and Eire's wartime neutrality, and how that conditioned subsequent British policy towards Ireland; and the bombing campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s. Dillon's remarkable study also provides new evidence of the political and military mistakes which made British cities the most vulnerable in Europe to terrorist attack and explains why Government agencies failed to eradicate the threat.

The first to reveal the existence of what the IRA called its 'England Department', Dillon provides new material on how that IRA cell functioned and what its objectives were; why the British Government held secret talks with the IRA/Sinn Fein amid the carnage of Warrington and other atrocities, and what was behind the IRA's reluctance to denounce the Downing Street Declaration.

About the Author
Martin Dillon
Martin Dillon is a Belfast journalist who, after an initial spell on newspapers, spent eighteen years working for the BBC in Northern Ireland. He is an acknowledged expert on terrorism and is the author of The Shankhill Butchers, The Dirty War, Killer in Clowntown and Stone Cold. He lives with his family in France.