Those Are Real Bullets: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 1972 - Softcover

Pringle, Peter; Jacobson, Philip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802138799 ISBN 13: 9780802138798

Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002

Synopsis

On January 30, 1972, British paratroopers opened fire on unarmed Irish Catholic demonstrators in Derry, killing thirteen and wounding another fourteen. Five were shot in the back. A major turning point in the recent history of Northern Ireland, the massacre galvanized Catholics in their struggle against the British presence in Ulster. In Those Are Real Bullets, Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson provide the definitive, full-length narrative account of Bloody Sunday. Using extensive interviews and recently declassified documents unavailable for previous books about the shootings, they vividly re-create the chaos and terror of the day and capture the full human impact of the tragedy. Those Are Real Bullets provides an intimate portrait of a city in revolt and the climax of a failed military response that plunged Northern Ireland into three decades of armed conflict. "A shocking, stomach-turning, enraging narrative history that should be required reading." -- Irish Independent "Written by two veteran, first-rate reporters, this book will remain the standard account of that miserable day." -- Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Daily Mail

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Those Are Real Bullets On January 30, 1972, British paratroopers opened fire on unarmed Irish Catholic demonstrators in Derry, killing thirteen and wounding another fourteen. Five were shot in the back. A major turning point in the recent history of Northern Ireland, the massacre galvanized Catholics in their struggle against the British presence in Ulster. In Those Are Real Bullets, Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson pr Full description

Edition details

• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802138799
• ISBN 13: 9780802138798
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320