Martin Dillon est un auteur de renommée internationale dont les œuvres d'investigation plongent au cœur du conflit irlandais. Son écriture est saluée pour sa capacité unique à combiner une recherche historique rigoureuse avec un récit de type thriller, offrant aux lecteurs des récits captivants et compatissants de la terreur et de l'horreur de la récente histoire de l'Irlande du Nord. Dillon est considéré comme l'une des voix les plus importantes sur le conflit, et ses livres sont jugés essentiels pour la compréhension de cette période turbulente.
Martin Dillon, a Belfast journalist regarded as an authority on Irish terrorism, presents material on the IRA's "England department" - how it has functioned and what its objectives are. He also provides evidence of political and military mistakes which he argues have made British cities the most vulnerable in Europe to terrorist attack. He explains why he believes that the various government agencies combating the IRA have failed to eradicate the threat, and describes the intrigue which led to MI5 taking responsibility for co-ordinating the war against the Provos. Dillon's other books include "The Shankill Butchers" and "The Dirty War".
He was the most decorated British soldier of the Second World War, receiving
four DSOs, the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'honneur, and he pioneered
tactics used today by the SAS and other special operations units worldwide.
A survey of the IRA's bombing campaign in Britain before and after World War II. The text looks at the IRA's flirtation with Nazism and Eire's wartime neutrality and how that conditioned subsequent British policy towards Ireland, and examines the campaigns of the 1970s and 1980s. It also discusses the political and military mistakes which made British cities the most vunerable in Europe to terrorist attack and why Government agencies failed to eradicate the threat. This book includes material on what the IRA called its England Department, on how that IRA cell fuctioned and its objectives, and what was behind the IRA's reluctance to denounce the Downing Street Declaration.
He unravels the mystery of war in which informers, agents and double agents
operate, revealing disturbing facts about the way in which the terrorists and
the Intelligence Agencies target, undermine and penetrate each other's ranks.
This book retells the story of a series of murders by the Ulster Volunteer Force in Northern Ireland in the 70s. When convicted, the killers received over 2000 years in jail, the longest sentences ever given in a single trial in British legal history.
In Crossing the Line, former BBC journalist and best-selling author Martin Dillon recalls his courageous journalistic career spent 'on the edge' during the worst years of the modern Troubles. Following his childhood on Belfast's Falls Road and his wild, rebellious teenage years, Dillon's move into the world of journalism lead him down dark paths of extreme danger, putting himself in harm's way to reveal the shocking truths of the conflict. His astonishing story details his encounters with a roll-call of major political figures, paramilitaries, and Irish literary greats: Conservative Prime Ministers Ted Heath and John Major, John Hume, Gerry Adams, Freddie Scappaticci, John McMichael, Joe Doherty, Denis Johnston, Sean O'Faolain, Ben Kiely, and JP Dunleavy. Dillon's memoir is as compelling as it is exhilarating, a roller-coaster of drama, action and emotions, and a riot of revelations on the political and sectarian conflict that rocked Belfast during the 1970s and '80s. But it's his former paymasters in the BBC who get both barrels as Dillon launches a scathing attack on the 'ethics' of the British state broadcaster, while lifting the lid on the Machiavellian manoeuvres of a unscrupulous Dublin art dealer, with his eye on a lucrative deal. [Subject: Memoir, Irish Studies, Politics]
