Description This is the first such study of Operation Banner, the British Army's campaign in Northern Ireland.
Drawing upon extensive interviews with former soldiers, primary archival sources including unpublished diaries and unit log-books, this book closely examines soldiers' behaviour at the small infantry-unit level (Battalion downwards), including the leadership, cohesion and training that sustained, restrained and occasionally misdirected soldiers during the most violent pe.
Liverpool University Press An army of tribes: british army cohesion, deviancy and murder in northern ireland/edward burke
