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Wasted Years Wasted Lives, Volume 2: The British Army in Northern Ireland 1978-79

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Without Ken's voice many of these tales would be lost to the sands of time and the courageous sacrifice of these men would be forgotten; but thanks to him they won't and their stories will live on. All of us who have ever worn green owe Ken and the men he writes of a debt; because lest we forget it could have been us. --Steven McLaughlin, bestselling author of Squaddie Another compelling insight into the British Army's long war in Northern Ireland. Deeply moving, often tragic, sometimes darkly funny, it gives a startling insight into a normally unseen side of the Troubles. Students of Irish history owe the author a huge debt of gratitude for assembling such a unique and indispensable narrative. --Kevin Myers, author of Watching the Door: Cheating Death in Belfast in the 1970s A crucial reminder of the sacrifices of our armed forces in Northern Ireland - even more timely with prosecutions being mooted over Bloody Sunday. --Damien Lewis, bestselling author of Zero Six Bravo, Operation Certain Death, Apache Dawn Like every good investigator, Ken Wharton is relentless in his pursuit of the facts and remains true to the evidence. Through his crisp, direct crisp storytelling he makes the past accessible for the rest of us and adds a special dimension to the study of conflict. --Martin Dillon, bestselling author of The Dirty War, The Trigger Men, The Shankill Butchers A former squaddie who himself patrolled the dangerous streets and lanes of Northern Ireland, Ken Wharton once again succeeds brilliantly in recreating what it was like for a soldier to be there in the darkest days of the Troubles. A must-read for anyone interested in knowing what really happened.

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Ken Wharton is in his mid-60s but retains a youthful, though deeply knowledgeable and experienced view of the Northern Ireland troubles. It was said by one military historian that: ‘… nobody does Northern Ireland quite like Ken Wharton.’ Living on Australia’s sun-kissed Gold Coast, he divides his time between there and his native UK. He returns to Britain as often as he can and still makes an annual pilgrimage to Ulster to lay his own ghosts and to remember the fallen of Britain’s forgotten war. A former football referee in the tough West Yorkshire League and with 500 skydives under his belt, he retains a young man’s view of the world, whilst at the same time, retaining his grip on reality.

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