Ulster 1969. The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland. London: Gollancz, 1970. First Edition. Pp 203. A fine bright copy in pictorial dust jacket.

Illustrated with maps & photographs.

Max Hastings was former editor of the Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard and the author of multiple books on military history. Hastings worked as a journalist at the outset of the Troubles and witnessed the attack on Divis Flats in 1969 when it was sprayed by machine gun fire killing nine-year-old Patrick Rooney.