Crimes of Loyalty

Crimes of Loyalty
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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780748626878
ISBN-13 : 0748626875
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Download or read book Crimes of Loyalty written by Ian S. Wood and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-05-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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