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This is a unique work filled with passion and violence, with humanity and inhumanity. It is the story of Northern Ireland troubles told as never before; it is not concerned with the political bickering buth with the lives of those who have suffered and deaths which have resulted from more than three decades of conflict.
The authors - four of them Belfast-born and the fifth an American - are journalists and historians. For over a decade, they have examined every single death that was directly caused by the troubles. Their research has seen them interview witnessess, scour published material and draw on a huge range of investigative sources to produce a work of epic proportions. Never before has conflict anywhere in the world been subjected to such meticulous scrutiny.
Lost Lives traces the origins of the conflict from the firing of the first shots, through the carnage of the 1970s and 1980s to the republican and loyalist ceasefires and beyond. All the casualties are here: the RUC officer, the young soldier, the IRA volunteer, the loyalist paramilitary, the Catholic mother, the Protestant worker, the newborn baby. Each account is impossible to ignore.
As a reference book, Lost Lives is indispensable; as a landscape of history painted in fine detail it is unique. For anyone interested in Northern Ireland - or in the human cost of conflict everywhere - this is destined to be the defining work.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE Troubles book.,
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This review is from: Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Hardcover)
Having read the petty criticism of the reviewer who awarded this important, brilliant book only one star, I felt compelled to write and state that it is my belief that Lost Lives is perhaps the only truly essential book to have been published on the last tragic 30 years of the Northern Ireland troubles.The authors of this mighty tome deserve all the praise that they have already received, and then some. Yes, there are inaccuracies and some mistakes, many of which have been corrected in ongoing editions, but this is the first (and only) book to date that has put the focus fairly and squarely on the human cost of that era from which we are all now, hopefully, trying to move on from. My guess is that our one-star contributor has an axe to grind or is just plain jealous of the achievement displayed in this book but, in the face of the recent onslaught of publications about failed politicians, so-called major scandals and revelations of the Troubles, and quick profiteering from these tragic years by greedy publishers, Lost Lives remains the only book worth bothering with.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A poignant reminder of those we forgot.,
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This review is from: Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles (Hardcover)
This book is an extremely compelling work, dispassionate but all the more sad because of it. As I read through it, I became very sad - reading how many people I knew met their violent death. It serves as a reminder to all that we must find a way forward by learning from the mistakes of the past. Over 3600 of them.The one dissapointment in the work is that it excludes, on purpose, the names of those convicted of the murders. The reason given for this is so as not to give rise to vengeance but surely those seeking vengeance for the murder of a loved one or friend would know the names of those convicted. I would recommend this book to anyone from the province and to people elsewhere - so that you may learn from our mistakes too.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Not just a book - but a valuable memorial,
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This review is from: Lost Lives: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died as a Result of the Northern Ireland Troubles: The Stories of the Men, Women and Children Who Died Through the Northern Ireland Troubles (Hardcover)
I have to say that when I lift this book from it's space on the shelf, I always find it hard to stop reading it and to put it down.
As I read through the chronological order, I can often remember what I was doing at that time, and I can often recollect hearing about the victims, often briefly mentioned in dispassionate news broadcasts, with little time spent putting any of it into context. This is where the book re-dresses that inbalance. With even the smaller paragraph entries, the victim becomes someone - taken too early and before their time. This is a masterful piece of work that deserves to be applauded. It also deserves to be in every school library in Northern Ireland.
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