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Those Are Real Bullets: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 1972
Those Are Real Bullets Bloody Sunday Derry 1972 Author:Peter Pringle, Philip Jacobson 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 A... more »re 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. Although a formal inquiry directly after Bloody Sunday exonerated the British soldiers and their commanders, Pringle and Jacobson show how the army's steady escalation of brutality in Northern Ireland led inevitably to the excesses in Derry, and they offer a compelling indictment of the army and its policies. Beyond assessing responsibility for the killings, the authors capture the full human impact of the tragedy and place the day within the historical context of the Troubles. 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.« less
The book has a lot of eye witness accounts and tells the story of several victims. It's a powerful account, everyone should read it, but you will have some level of evisceral reaction from the senselessness of it.