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Colin Wallace, 8 October 1992
The Red Hand: Protestant Paramilitaries in Northern Ireland
by Steve Bruce.
Oxford, 326 pp., £25, August 1992,0 19 215961 5 Show More
by Steve Bruce.
Oxford, 326 pp., £25, August 1992,
“... new here. The book reads like a rushed synopsis of press cuttings, and it rates as a poor third to Martin Dillon’s two excellent accounts, Political Murder in Northern Ireland and The Shankill Butchers. There are many irritating factual errors. Bruce refers to off-duty soldiers from the ‘Royal Irish Rifles’ shooting at members of the Royal Ulster ... ”