Behind the Wire

About This Book

At 4:00 AM on 9 August 1971, the British Army launched Operation Demetrius — the mass arrest and internment without trial of hundreds of men across Northern Ireland. The operation was a catastrophic failure of intelligence: many of those arrested had no connection to the IRA, while key figures evaded capture. This book reveals the untold stories of the internees — the brutal interrogation techniques later condemned by the European Court of Human Rights, the community of resistance that formed behind the wire of Long Kesh, and the families left to cope alone on the outside.

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