The Shankill Butchers

Informationen zum Autor Martin Dillon Klappentext Martin Dillon is a native of Belfast although educated in England. He lived in France for a time and returned to Northern Ireland to work as a journalist with the Irish News before joining the Belfast Telegraph. He also worked as a freelance journalist for several national newspapers and American periodicals. In 1973 he wrote Political Murder in Northern Ireland which is regarded as the definitive study of political assassination in Northern Ireland. His second book, Rogue Warrior of the SAS, is a biography of the Second World War hero, Lt. Col. Robert Blair Mayne, and is published by Arrow. The Shankill Butchers which was a bestseller in both Ireland and Britain was the first in his trilogy of books about Northern and Southern Ireland. Martin Dillon has written plays for BBC radio and television and has been Editor in Northern Ireland of many of the BBC's programmes in the area of current affairs. He now works for the BBC History Unit in London. Zusammenfassung This book by the author of "Rogue Warrior of the SAS", retells the story of a series of murders by the Ulster Volunteer Force in N. Ireland in the 1970s. When convicted, the killers received over 2000 years in jail, the longest sentences ever given in a single trial in British legal history.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Dillon, Dillon Martin
• Publisher: Arrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.07.1990
• EAN: 9780099738107
• ISBN: 978-0-09-973810-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, Northern Ireland, Terrorism, armed struggle, British & Irish history, c 1970 to c 1979, c 1970 to c 1980