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Richard Norton-Taylor: One bomb in London, 15 July 2021
The Intelligence War against the IRA
by Thomas Leahy.
Cambridge, 356 pp., £18.99, March 2020,978 1 108 72040 3 Show More
by Thomas Leahy.
Cambridge, 356 pp., £18.99, March 2020,
“... secret back-channel talks with Catholic priests, the Derry businessman Brendan Duddy, and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin. After Mountbatten’s murder in August 1979 and the killing, hours later, of 18 soldiers at Warrenpoint – the army’s heaviest single loss in Northern Ireland – Thatcher asked Maurice Oldfield, the recently retired head of ... ”