Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA - Hardcover

Wood, Ian S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748624260 ISBN 13: 9780748624263

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2006

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"The best scholarly treatment of the subject to date, a study which blends revealing research and dispassionate and illuminating analysis." -- Graham Walker, Queen's University of Belfast

"The best scholarly treatment of the subject to date, a study which blends revealing research and dispassionate and illuminating analysis." -- Graham Walker, Queen's University of Belfast

The best scholarly treatment of the subject to date, a study which blends revealing research and dispassionate and illuminating analysis.--Graham Walker, Queen's University of Belfast

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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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0748624260
• ISBN 13: 9780748624263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320