by Peter Taylor
This work examines the Provos, from 1969, when the IRA was effectively dead and buried, to within a few short years, when it had resurrected to become the most feared and soph…
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A thorough overview of the years of the Provos which is only occasionally gripping. A lot of the time it's a fairly dry recounting of events and leadership struggles within the IRA. It also does not provide that much insight into Sinn Fein past or present.<br/><br/>Most interesting is reading about the high profile assassinations and the massive London bombings. It's hard to imagine that this level of warfare was common on the islands if you were born in the eighties like myself.