The Dirty War by Martin Dillon
In this enthralling and controversial book, Martin Dillon, author of the bestselling The Shankill Butchers, examines the roles played by the Provisional IRA, the State forces, the Irish Government and the British Army during this troubled period.Grippingly written with the pace of a thriller * Financial Times *
Makes Cold War duplicity a la Deighton and Le Carre seem positively endearing * Guardian *
Martin Dillon is a native of Belfast although educated in England. He lived in France for a time and returned to Northern Ireland to work as a journalist with the Irish News before joining the Belfast Telegraph. He also worked as a freelance journalist for several national newspapers and American periodicals. In 1973 he wrote Political Murder in Northern Ireland which is regarded as the definitive study of political assassination in Northern Ireland. His second book, Rogue Warrior of the SAS, is a biography of the Second World War hero, Lt. Col. Robert Blair Mayne, and is published by Arrow. The Shankill Butchers which was a bestseller in both Ireland and Britain was the first in his trilogy of books about Northern and Southern Ireland.
Martin Dillon has written plays for BBC radio and television and has been Editor in Northern Ireland of many of the BBC's programmes in the area of current affairs. He now works for the BBC History Unit in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099845201 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099845202 |
| Title | The Dirty War |
| Author | Martin Dillon |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 1991-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 560 |
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