Policing Ireland's Twisted History

<p>Ireland has long been a country of conflict. More than 400 years ago the occupying English planted pre-Celtic Scots in the northern province of Ulster and divested the native Irish Celts of the land their ancestors owned for 2000 years. This created a deep-seated enmity between the English and Irish Protestant and Catholic-and it finally exploded in the Troubles.</p><p>Author Alan M. Wilson was on the front lines for the bloodbath that tore Northern Ireland apart from the late 1960s through the first years of the twenty-first century. Policing Ireland's Twisted History reveals Wilson's remarkable true story of growing up in Belfast and serving in the Royal Ulster Constabulary as an inspector and as a member of an elite anti-terrorism unit. Wilson's only goal was to help protect the innocent on both sides. Unfortunately he became a target himself. </p><p>Brutally honest and unflinching Wilson traces his experiences serving Ireland's divided society for nearly ten years. From watching friends die to the tit-for-tat murders occurring on the streets to staring death in the eye more than once Wilson reveals the deep gut-wrenching search for the meaning of it all in the midst of the world's longest-running terrorist situation. </p><p>A firsthand look at the Northern Ireland conflict <i>Policing Ireland's Twisted History<i> offers an eye-opening intimate examination of this devastating struggle.</p>