NI Troubles - book recommendations?

[Big News]

Hi all,

This part of history has always fascinated me - for GCSE History we had to write a report on Bloody Sunday, and I think I enjoyed doing that piece of work more than any before or since! However I don't really know THAT much about it - I was born in 1992 so never really understood what was going on at the time.

So, does anyone have any book recommendations, both historical overviews and autobiographical accounts from soldiers who served in NI?

Thanks in advance!

Ben

[Electric Beaver]

Big News said:

Hi all,

This part of history has always fascinated me - for GCSE History we had to write a report on Bloody Sunday, and I think I enjoyed doing that piece of work more than any before or since! However I don't really know THAT much about it - I was born in 1992 so never really understood what was going on at the time.

So, does anyone have any book recommendations, both historical overviews and autobiographical accounts from soldiers who served in NI?

Thanks in advance!

Ben

Just started Shadow Troop which is about the MRF also the subject of the recent BBC documentary. Seems good so far.

[bern]

Trinity by Leon Uris.

Wrote with a catholic bias but gives a good dramatised account of all the prehistory leading up to the Easter uprising.

Not actually about the troubles though.

[xe mini]

A very good read, highly recommended.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0340717378...

[Sammitch]

Excellent read:

The Informer by Sean O'Callaghan

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Informer-Sean-OCallaghan/d...

Also, Soldier of the Queen by Bernard O'Mahoney

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Soldier-Queen-Bernard-OMah...

Edited by Sammitch on Tuesday 10th December 05:29

[Yertis]

A Breed of Heroes, by Alan Judd.

Harry's Game, by Gerald Seymour.

Both Army perspective and good reads (when I was 16, while the Troubles were still going on)

[Roy Lime]

Yertis said:

A Breed of Heroes, by Alan Judd.

Harry's Game, by Gerald Seymour.

Both Army perspective and good reads (when I was 16, while the Troubles were still going on)

Harry's Game is fictional, just in case the OP doesn't realise; Gerald Seymour was a journalist. Bloody good though. He also wrote one called The Journeyman Tailor which was based in Northern Ireland.

[Krupp Stahl]

'A Long Long War' - Voices of the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98 (Ken Wharton)
'Bullets, Bombs and Cups of Tea' - Further Voices of the British Army in Northern Ireland 1969-98 (Ken Wharton)
'Sir, They're Taking the Kids Indoors' - The British Army in Northern Ireland 1973-4 (Ken Wharton)

[Siko]

Another vote for bandit country; a simply sensational book.

[dumfriesdave]

Martin McGartland's books have been highly recommended by many people.

[Joey Ramone]

"Big Boys Rules" by Mark Urban.