For the first time, an outside observer has been given permission to accompany a battalion of the British Army into Northern Ireland on a tour of duty. In this book the author accompanies a battalion to West Belfast - the so-called peace line between the Falls Road and the Shankill and live with and experience what the ordinary soldier goes through: patrolling the streets, keeping the peace, investigating bomb threats, arresting and questioning suspects, the fear of the snipper's bullet and the separation from family and loved ones.
- ISBN10 0718133870
- ISBN13 9780718133870
- Publish Date 3 December 2015
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 8 May 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint Michael Joseph Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English