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This is an immensely readable book - I had great trouble putting it down. --Daly History Blog
Bloody Belfast gives a unique perspective on the Troubles ... a humbling and captivating read. --Bookgeeks
Calling on first-hand accounts that he has collected from veterans of the campaign, Ken recounts the everyday horror that they came up against. --Legion Magazine
Bloody Belfast gives a unique perspective on the Troubles ... a humbling and captivating read. --Bookgeeks
Calling on first-hand accounts that he has collected from veterans of the campaign, Ken recounts the everyday horror that they came up against. --Legion Magazine
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Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first hand. Bloody Belfast is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfast s streets, based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader will experience the darkned, dangerous streets of the Lower Falls, the Divis Flats and New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved the hate-filled mobs on the newer, but no less violent streets of the 'Murph, Turf Lodge and Andersonstown.
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The TROUBLES,
By JB "JB" (LANCASHIRE) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Bloody Belfast: An Oral History of the British Army's War Against the IRA (Hardcover)
A good read.
Stories from servicemen, who like others went to forgotten wars. This week (the end of May 2010), as we remember Dunkirk, read the story's of those who also like the Italian, Burma and Korean campaigns went to a forgotten "WAR". I spent six and a half years of my twenty-two years military service in Northern Ireland, did I waste my time, who knows? I never went to a real war, just the "TROUBLES" but over 3700 civilians, men, women, children, police and service personal lost their lives and for what? As a soldier in NI I new where the TERRORISTS lived, be they IRA (now called Dissident Republicans)or UVF or whatever each faction called itself. Could I have killed them, well yes I suppose so but Britain is not a Banana Republic, or is it? Did others do so, who knows? This book, as in previous ones gives individuals the chance to tell their stories. In 1996, according to my NATO Medal, I was in the FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, there I met an American who, because of Iraq War, looked on me like a fellow comrade in arms. That was until I told him I was presently detached from my unit in Northern Ireland. Then to him I became the enemy, why? Well he came from Boston and for years had been giving money to the IRA (NORAID). So then I had this American, a Baptist until he went to collage, explain to me, a second generation Irish Catholic British Soldier, the problem with Northern Ireland. Which was? I and my fellow soldiers where there, that was the problem. So I had this "SPAM" from the USA, who had supported Irish "Terrorist" for years telling me, a British Soldier, that I was the problem. This I found bizarre! So according this Americans logic the problem in Afghanistan is us being there? Tell that to those who have lost loved ones in American, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Poland, Etc in Iraq and Afghanistan, what would they think? Read this book and weep for the soldiers in Afghanistan. My last job in Northern Ireland was to photograph the IED before the ATO did the long walk. It took nearly six days before he did that. Now with nothing more than a glorified metal detector and a bayonet they clear over ten a day. Rather them then me! Somethings never change. Lions Led By Donkeys!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Bloody Belfast: An Oral History of the British Army's War Against the IRA (Hardcover)
Another excellent Book from someone who was actually there! Truth is better than fiction and this is a must read for anyone who served in Northern Ireland during the 'troubles'!
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Memories awoken,
This review is from: Bloody Belfast: An Oral History of the British Army's War Against the IRA (Hardcover)
In his book Bloody Belfast, Ken Wharton has awoken in me, for the first time in many years, the time I spent in Northern Ireland and the loss of so many good friends who died over there.It also brought into perspective the poor treatment that we received from an ungrateful nation and the lack of interest shown over the whole time by the political classes and the MOD.I have nothing but respect for the young men and woman who now serve in our armed forces, I do however warn them that as soon as they are out of Afganistan they will be consigned to the same historical bin as those of us who served in Malaya, Aden, Kenya, Korea, Cyprus the Falklands and all the other conflicts that the armed forces have been involved in since 1945.
I spent over 3 years of my life invovled in N.I. Was it worth it? I believe it was, for the sake of the decent people who suffered as we did because of the gangsters and psychopaths who brought shame and terror to a small part of the United Kingdom. Keep up the good work Ken you are helping a lot of us who are no longer young, to remember what it really was like to serve in a terrorist war in your own country.
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