The Irish War: The Hidden Conflict Between the Ira and British Intelligence - Rilegato

Geraghty, Tony

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ISBN 10: 0801864569 ISBN 13: 9780801864568

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2000

Riassunto

Geraghty, a British subject, an Irish citizen, a writer and a military advisor, explores the roots of the civil war in Northern Ireland since the Battle of the Boyne (1690), paying particular attention to the last 30 years of violence. Drawing on public and classified sources, as well as interviews with members of British intelligence, British military sources, Unionist paramilitaries, and the IRA, the book reveals the conflict to have expanded to include convert operations, surveillance, and brutal interrogation techniques. The author was arrested in 1998 for violating Britain's Official Secrets Act because he wrote in this book about computer programs used by British security to profile suspected terrorists. The case was dismissed a year later. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Recensione:

"The book's strengths are its attention to detail and its direct, potent writing... A compelling introduction to a painful struggle." -- Publishers Weekly

"The role of British Intelligence in Ulster has never been so deeply explored... He writes clearly and knowledgeably about the impact on the IRA of the use of forensics by British Intelligence. He describes in detail the IRA's success in modifying and developing its own weapons, particularly mortars, and writes of the SAS's often lethal operations in Ulster with a kind of righteous anger not seen since American journalists inveighed against our role in Vietnam... Clearly well researched." -- Library Journal

"An easy to read and well written narrative." -- Adrian Guelke, Terrorism and Political Violence

"Geraghty has produced a book both readable and alarming. The first third is a well-observed account of a largely visible British war machine coping with the horrors of the Northern Ireland Troubles. The last third is devoted to militarism in Ireland up to 1921. But it is the middle third, the covert war, that astonishes. We learn that [British Intelligence] had a habit of enticing suspects away from home with lavish 'dodgy' holidays in the sun by faking breakfast-food competitions. While the target was away, the Security Service would plant a host of listening devices, which might include a miniaturized video camera inside a domestic light switch." -- Herald (Glasgow)

"Anyone interested in the 'war that isn't,' should find this book enlightening." -- Larry S. Sterrett, New Gun Week

L'autore:

Tony Geraghty is a British subject and an Irish citizen. He is a veteran of the British Red Berets and served as a military liaison officer with U.S. forces during the Gulf War, for which he was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal for Military Merit with a citation signed by General H. Norman Schwarzkopf. Geraghty has also worked in the United States as a writer for the Boston Globe.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0801864569
• ISBN 13: 9780801864568
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 420