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Item: PHOENIX - THE SECRET WAR AGAINST TERROR IN NORTHERN IRELAND by Jack Holland & Susan Phoenix.
1st Edition!!!
285 page hardback book (24cm x 16cm) published by Hodder & Stoughton 1996.
Content: This is a mint condition 1996 1st edition of Phoenix - The Secret War Against Terror in Northern Ireland by Jack Holland & Susan Phoenix.
Dust-jacket reads:
When the huge Chinook helicopter slammed into the side of the Mull of Kintyre on a summer's evening in June 1994, it claimed the lives of twenty-five top anti-terrorist intelligence officers, among whom was Detective Superintendent Ian Phoenix. Head of the Northern Ireland police counter-surveillance unit, Phoenix had spent twenty-five years of his life in an undercover war against some of the most deadly terrorist organisations in the world. A war where heroes have no names and deeds that save hundreds of lives remain unrecorded. Until now.
PHOENIX reveals for the first time how the undercover war of covert police and SAS operations was fought in an arena where the rules were made by doorstep assassins, booby-trap bombers and snipers in the shadows. It tells how the man responsible for almost wiping out the British cabinet was caught, how a deadly bombing campaign in Britain was frustrated and how the lives of many of those targeted for death by the IRA were saved through secret and often ruthless tactics.
PHOENIX takes the reader behind the scenes of the secret negotiations which led to the IRA cease-fire and uncovers some shocking details about what political figures were prepared to do to win over the terrorists. It exposes the struggle between the Northern Ireland Special Branch and M15 for control of top secret information channels.
PHOENIX is more than just a story of a shadowy war. It is an intimate portrait of an Irish man and his English wife, Susan, who came to Northern Ireland thinking she would be the wife of an ordinary bobby and instead found herself thrown into the mayhem of the Troubles. Their relationship gives a personal background to the tale of terror and counter-terror, in a world where a rap on the door can mean death.
Illustrated with photographs.
Additional information: Jack Holland grew up in Belfast, in a mixed religion family. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the University of Essex. His books include INLA: Deadly Divisions and Too Long a Sacrifice: Life and Death and Northern Ireland since 1969. Jack Holland's work has appeared in the Spectator, The Sunday Times, The New York Times and the London Irish Post among others.
Susan Phoenix was married to Ian Phoenix for twenty-six years. She holds a doctorate in psychology and is recognised throughout Europe for her work with the deaf.
Condition: Mint Condition.
Collectable 1st Edition!!!
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