Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They?: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They?: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 30 January 1972 Book

Good journalism captures and re-animates an historic moment. The shocking events documented in this book--which were unquestionably a defining moment in Ulster's short but troubled history--occurred nearly 30 years ago but come off the pages as if they happened yesterday. The authors graphically recreate the the events at Bogside, Londonderry, a nationalist enclave in a bitterly divided Province, involving British paratroopers on 30 January, 1972, during the course of a civil rights protest march. These events record that 13 Catholic civilians (more than likely unarmed, as the authors argue) were killed and a further 16 were wounded. The episode still reverberates as an emotional and mental obstacle towards an enduring peace process in the Province. The authors, two distinguished journalists who investigated the events for The Sunday Times at the time, have re-visited their notebooks, re-interviewed their eye-witnesses and have had access to declassified documents and new statements from the soldiers involved. What they have pieced together is a moving, often heart-rending narrative whose immediacy vividly recaptures the bravery and brutality which arose out of the carnage on that day. --Michael HatfieldRead More

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  • Foyles

    An iconic event in modern Irish history is, for the first time, narrated in directly human terms. Who were the people who marched, who fired from the flats, the barricades, who died? In brilliant narrative form a modern myth is unfolded and revealed fully, and so tells the story of the recent history of the armed struggle in Ireland. Free Derry Corner, 30 January 1972, site of one of the pivotal events in modern British history. A civil rights march was led into an ambush. Thirteen civilians died, many killed by the British Army. It was the first instance of the British Army firing on its own citizens since the Peterloo Massacre in 1819[chk]. It ruined British authority in the province for a generation and was the single identifiable cause of the rejuvenated armed struggle that would last for the rest of the century. Yet it is shrouded in mystery and legend, in deliberate disinformation and deceit, in political interpretation from all sides involved. The events of Bloody Sunday, as it became known are told here as a vivdly dramatic narrative for the first time. Interspersed within the unfolding disaster is the story of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a complex history revealed by two incisive and expertly informed writers who first researched events in Derry for the Sunday Times in 1972. Bloody Sunday is the most contested, mythologised and symbolic event in modern Irish history. Here, for the first time with the benefit of modern forensic science, new witnesses interviewed and against the background of the Savile report, is the truth of what happened.

  • 1841153168
  • 9781841153162
  • Peter Pringle, Philip Jacobson
  • 30 January 2001
  • Fourth Estate
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 320
  • New Ed
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