A history of shame
Anna Cadwallader is a former journalist who has delved into the grim history and much of the detail of the murders in Northern Ireland, particularly between 1970 and 1978. Her book says only one thing; that successive British governments colluded with loyalist paramilitaries in whatever form they took.
Case by case, we are helped to imagine what it must be like to be in your own home watching something happily banal on television when live bullets are fired through your door, your house, and then… you. No one will ever read a book that illustrates more vividly, in sequential gore, what it must be like to be murdered or, worse, to see your wife and child randomly slaughtered.
