Times of Troubles

This is a thought-provoking, important addition to the existing literature. – P.C. Kennedy, York College of Pennsylvania * Choice: Volume 50, No.4 *Sanders and Wood have produced an outstanding and judicious book on a topic fraught with difficulties. – Alasdair McKillop, University of Edinburgh * Scottish Review *Far more has been written on paramilitary groups in the Northern Ireland conflict than on the role of the British military itself. This vivid study, based on extensive first-hand research, contributes very valuably to correcting that imbalance. 　As it does so, it offers important insights relevant to Northern Ireland and the UK, but also to wider conflict settings as armies attempt to respond to the challenges of political violence. – Professor Richard English, University of St Andrews

Andrew Sanders is John Moore Newman Research Fellow, UCD Clinton Institute for American Studies at University College Dublin. He is the author of Inside the IRA: Dissident Republicans and the War for Legitimacy (Edinburgh University Press, 2011) Ian S. Wood is a distinguished Military historian, lecturer and journalist. He is the author of Gods, Guns and Ulster (Caxton 2003); Crimes of Loyalty: a History of the UDA (Edinburgh 2006); Britain, Ireland and the Second World War (Edinburgh 2010) and is a contributing author to A Military History of Scotland (Edinburgh 2012).