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The Irish Times No.1 Bestseller
A New Statesman 'Best Book of 2023 so far'
'As taut as a fictional thriller' Mail on Sunday
'Gripping, detailed and richly layered' Guardian
The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher
KILLING THATCHER is the gripping account of…
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I've always liked Rory Carroll's journalism and I hoped he would bring that to the book - and he did in spades. Brilliantly researched, it told the story of the IRA operation to kill Thatcher but made it all very human, an awesome piece of writing.
Carroll tells the thrilling and appalling story of how the IRA plotted and came very close to decapitating the British government by blowing up the seaside hotel housing Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet colleagues during a Conservative Party conference in 1984.
Students of history will find dozens of new insights and explanations of what the IRA was thinking and how it mounted the plot.
The rest of us are offered a thrilling read that is also a meditation on history, memory, and the long-term consequences of political violence.
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