Peter Taylor

Loyalists (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The second part of the landmark trilogy documenting modern-day Northern Ireland, by the author Provos and Brits

Based on a three-part BBC TV series, this is an inside account of the thinking, strategies and ruthless violence of the paramilitaries in Northern Ireland. The author draws on a series of interviews both with the paramilitary leaders who mapped out the loyalist strategy and the gunmen who carried out the bombing and killing. There are also revealing interviews with loyalist and unionist politicians who operated centre stage while the paramilitaries remained in the shadows. The loyalists believe it was their clinically targeted offensive against senior members of the IRA and Sinn Fein that brought the Republican movement to the negotiating table and made the Good Friday agreement possible.

*PRAISE FOR PETER TAYLOR*

'Only a journalist of Peter Taylor's standing could have persuaded people from all sides in the conflict to cooperate in such a manner. The result was a first-rate piece of journalism. It was also first-rate history' Guardian

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408854938
• Artikelnr.: 40805726

Autorenporträt

Peter Taylor is acknowledged to be one of the BBC's most distinguished and respected journalists, best known for his coverage of the Irish conflict and political violence over the past 50 years. He has won many awards for his work including Journalist of the Year, the James Cameron Award and Lifetime Achievement Awards from both BAFTA and the Royal Television Society. He was also presented with an OBE and an Honorary Doctorate in Peace and Security Studies from Bradford University. Peter has written nine books, eight of them related to Northern Ireland, terrorism and political violence. Operation Chiffon serves as the final volume in his landmark quartet of the 50-year conflict in Ireland.