Major Farran’s Hat: Murder, Scandal and Britain’s War Against Jewish Terrorism 1945-1948

David Cesarani

Cesarani makes a strong case, backed up by extensive research, that British colonial policies in the 1940s were little changed from the days of imperial rule in Ireland and that tactics employed in Ireland to subdue the IRA were used again in Palestine before being transplanted to other outposts of empire — including Malaya and Kenya — and then back to Northern Ireland.

Not only did these policies fail in all of the countries named, but some of the same players, many of them with Irish connections, were present throughout.