Killing for Britain - Softcover

This 2017 updated edition of Killing For Britain will ruffle as many feathers as the first edition in 2008 did. The book received a high profile as articles in most Irish and UK papers featured the author's claims of officially sanctioned Collusion between the British Army and Loyalist paramilitaries/ This 2017 Edition's revelation that SAS super sniper and former SAS Warrant Officer Mike Norman is named as the UVF author's military intelligence contact corroborats many of the claims in the book. Killing For Britain was the basis for The Sunday World 2016 article naming Norman as the Military contact of the author. Former Warrant Officer Mike Norman was found shot dead in London in 2005 with photographs from one of the episodes described Killing for Britain beside him. Norman was also an Anonymous Witness to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, surely only because he was there. Previously, only Black's account in Killing for Britain had placed him there. Collusion (between British forces and Loyalist paramilitaries) is the last untold story of the Troubles and Killing for Britain confirms both Republican claims that the British ran Loyalist Death Squads, as well as Loyalist claims that their activities were not only tolerated but in fact fully supported by the British state. Killing for Britain demonstrates that it is no longer credible for the state to contend that Collusion refers to the activities of a few bad apples. Collusion between official state forces and non-offical paramilitaries was state policy in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and elsewhere. You'd have to believe Northern Ireland was an exception to this historically established pattern if you were to contend that Collusion was not systemic. Killing for Britain is former UVF member John Black s story of how he was directed by a British army counter-insurgency unit in 1972. The author was in British Army uniform on three occasions including on Bloody Sunday. Later there would be little direct contact between Loyalist paramilitaries and the British Army, but these early years show the Northern Irish version of the Collusion template forming and becoming a key dynamics of the Troubles. Some contend Collusion extended the conflict by 30 years. Killing For Britain graphically confirms security policy was to use the killing of nationalist civilians as a means of forcing them to give up support for the I.R.A.

John Black was a member of the UVF in Belfast during the early 1970s when the conflict was at its most ferocious. In 1971, Black was selected (with others) by British Military Intelligence to carry out operations on its behalf. Twice convicted for Troubles related activity, Black eventually believed peace was the only way forward, although he's as much a Loyalists today as he ever was.