Title Belfast Diaries : a Gunner In Northern Ireland 1971-74.

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Havertown : Helion & Company, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (494 pages)
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Contents	Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; List of maps; Introduction and Acknowledgements; Maps; Part I: 1971-72; 1 August 1971 -- The training begins; 2 November 1971 -- Baptism of fire; 3 December 1971 -- Trying times; 4 January 1972 -- The days leading up to 'Bloody Sunday'; 5 February 1972 -- Six weeks to go; 6 March 1972 -- The final days; Photo Gallery; Part II: New Lodge 1974 -- My final tour; 7 February 1974 -- A brief description of events surrounding my final tour; 8 April-June 1974 -- Preparations for the tour and the first few weeks.
	9 July 1974 -- The bombing of the Parlour Observation Post and another fatal shooting10 August 1974 -- Parades and gun battles in the Lodge; 11 September 1974 -- The capture of a gunman; 12 October 1974 -- The final 11 days; eBooks Published by Helion & Company.
Summary	""It's a very weird sensation to be shot at ... Very often you see the gunman when it's too late or you don't see him at all. You might as well just be targets on a rifle range. I often wondered if I would get through this tour ok, and even now I still do ... ""In the four-month period during 1971 that Gunner Stephen Corbett was stationed in Andersontown, Northern Ireland, 33 servicemen were killed by terrorist action in the province. His unit, 9 (Plassey) Bty, Royal Artillery, was attacked by a bomb, bullet or rioters on more than 400 occasions. In 1972 alone, the toll of service personnel kill.
Subject	Great Britain. Army -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
	Great Britain. Army. (OCoLC)fst00533555
	British -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
	Northern Ireland -- History -- 1968-1998 -- Sources.
	Political violence -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Personal narratives -- Sources.
	British -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
	Great Britain. Army -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
	Northern Ireland -- History -- 1969-1994 -- Sources.
	Political violence -- Northern Ireland -- History -- 20th century -- Personal narratives -- Sources.
	HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
	TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
	British. (OCoLC)fst00839044
	Political violence. (OCoLC)fst01069902
	Northern Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205215
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
Other Form:	Print version: Corbett, Steve. Belfast Diaries : A Gunner In Northern Ireland 1971-74. Havertown : Helion & Company, ©2013 9781909384071
ISBN	9781910294222 (electronic bk.)
	1910294225 (electronic bk.)

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