CRIMES OF LOYALTY by Ian S. Wood ( 9780748624270 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

CRIMES OF LOYALTY
A HISTORY OF THE UDA

By:

Ian S. Wood

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0748624279

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9780748624270

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Publisher:

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

19 May, 2006

Pages:

320

Description:

Ian S. Wood uses his specialist knowledge as well as extensive interviews to recount the events of Ireland's Troubles and the ruthless war waged by the UDA on the nationalist community.

Synopsis:

Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence Association. Yet as Northern Ireland's Troubles worsened in 1971 and 1972, it emerged with a mass membership to defend Loyalist areas against the IRA and to uphold the Union with Britain. By 1974 it was able to defy the will of an elected government and it went on to formulate political strategies for working-class Loyalism. Ian S. Wood uses his specialist knowledge as well as extensive interviews to recount these events and the ruthless war waged by the UDA on the nationalist community. He explores issues such as the UDA's descent into criminality and its relationship with the 'secret war' conducted by Britain's undercover services and he assesses what impact the organisation had on the outcome of Europe's worst political and ethnic conflict between 1945 and the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia after 1990.

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Edinburgh University Press

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