'SIR, THEY'RE TAKING THE KIDS INDOORS': The British Army in Northern Ireland 1973-74
Language: English | EPUB / MOBI | ISBN-10: 1907677674 | 2012 | 328 pages | 6 MB / 6 MB
This is Ken Wharton's eagerly awaited new book chronicling the Northern Ireland troubles from the British soldier's perspective. His finest book to date, surpassing his 2011 work "The Bloodiest Year - Northern Ireland 1972", looks at the bloody period of 1973/4 and features many contributions from those who were there besides superb and painstaking research. 'Sir, they're taking the kids indoors' was a cry heard by most if not all of the British soldiers who served on either the 4 month emergency or the 2 year resident battalion tours of Northern Ireland. It refers to the IRA tactic of warning the civilian population in Republican areas of the impending arrival of one of their gunmen.