This book about the troubles in Northern Ireland is worth reading just for the author's detailed accounts of what the Ulster people were thinking during those long horrible years. It's hard to find a book that deals with the other side, most of the books about this subject are only about the I.R.A. and the Irish Catholic side. So it's worth reading just for that. The author definitely knows his subject, sometimes too well. Where this book fails is in it's incredibly all encomopassing minute detail of every single political move and governmental decision. After four hundred pages of that your heads swimming with all the politics. It's too much. I could have used more of a personal view of the violence. Kind of a social history of the troubles, that would have been more readible. Deal with the violence, the police and military side, along with the social and personal accounts of the people and leave the political and governmental machinations barely visible. Nothing turns me off to a book more than too much politics and government machinations. Still a good book. I've never considered what the other side were thinking or going through until I read this book. Well done.Read full review
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