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

Pringle, Peter., Jacobson, Philip

ISBN 10: 1841152900 / ISBN 13: 9781841152905

Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Limited, 2000

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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 vividly 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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Philip Jacobson and Peter Pringle were the original Sunday Times Insight investigators into the events of Bloody Sunday. Philip is now a veteran foreign correspondent who was most recently chief of ‘The Times’ bureau in Paris. He has co-authored best-selling books on Northern Ireland and the 1973 Middle East War, and a biography of Aristotle Onassis. Married with two sons, he now lives in London.

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Titel: Those Are Real Bullets, Aren't They? : ...
Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: Very Good