The Shankill Butchers
by Martin Dillon
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'This was the ultimate way to kill a man' During the 1970s a group of Protestant paramilitaries embarked on a spree of indiscriminate murder which left thirty Northern Irish Catholics dead. Their leader was Lenny Murphy, a fanatical Unionist whose Catholic-sounding surname led to his persecution as a child for which he took revenge on all Catholics. Not for the squeamish, The Shankill Butchersis a horrifying detailed account of one of the most brutal series of murders in British legal show more history - a phenomenon whose real nature has been obscured by the troubled and violent context from which it sprang. show lessTags
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Martin Dillon worked for the BBC in Northern Ireland for eighteen years and has won international acclaim for his non-fiction books about Ireland. A writer and producer of documentaries about political violence, Dillon is often featured in news segments on CNN, ABC News, CBC and National Public Radio, and is frequently called on as one of the show more foremost authorities on global terrorism. show less
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- Belfast, Northern Ireland
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- Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 364.1523094167 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Murder History, geographic treatment, biography Europe British Isles
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- HV6433 .G712 .U463 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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- English
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