Bloody Belfast

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Former soldier Ken Wharton witnessed the troubles in Northern Ireland first h&. Bloody Belfast" is a fascinating oral history given a chilling insight into the killing grounds of Belfasts streets. Whartons work is based on first hand accounts from the soldiers. The reader can walk the darkened dangerous streets of the Lower Falls the Divis Flats & New Lodge alongside the soldiers who braved the hate-filled mobs on the newer but no less violent streets of the Murph Turf Lodge & Andersonstown. The author has interviewed UDR soldier Glen Espie who survived being ambushed & shot by the IRA not once but twice & Army Dog Handler Dougie Durrant who through the incredible ability of his dog tracked an IRA gunman fresh from the murder of a soldier to where he was sitting in a hot bath in the Turf Lodge desperately trying to wash away the forensic evidence. Whartons reputation for honesty established from previous works has encouraged more former soldiers of Britains forgotten army to come forward to tell their stories of Bloody Belfast. The book continues the story of his previous work presenting the truth about a conflict which has sometimes been deliberately underplayed by the Establishment."