An Agony Continued: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1980-83 Wharton Ken
An Agony Continued: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1980-83 Wharton Ken This book is called An Agony Continued because it was simply that: an agony. Little did any of us know at the time, but it…
Specifikacia An Agony Continued: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1980-83 Wharton Ken
An Agony Continued: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1980-83 Wharton Ken
This book is called An Agony Continued because it was simply that: an agony. Little did any of us know at the time, but it was to do so for almost a further two decades. 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.
The Provisional IRA (PIRA) and their slightly more psychopathic cousins in the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) would continue to kill innocent civilians by the score during this decade. Between January 1980 and December 1989, around 1,000 people died; many were soldiers and policemen; some were Prison Officers; some were paramilitaries; and some were innocent civilians. Across the sectarian divide the Ulster Freedom Fighters (UFF) and the equally vicious Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) would continue to slaughter Catholics
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