UDR Declassified

Micheál Smith, "UDR: Declassified"
English | ISBN: 1785374273 | 2022 | 272 pages | EPUB | 488 KB
In UDR: Declassified, Micheál Smith reveals what the British establishment, the British government, and its armed forces knew and had to say about the regiment in recently declassified files. From its formation in 1970 as a locally raised militia, the Ulster Defence Regiment developed into the largest regiment in the British Army. For unionists, service in the UDR was a noble act and often a family tradition; for nationalists, an encounter with the UDR was frequently hostile, often brutal, and sometimes fatal. To the British Army, they were ‘a dangerous species of ally,’ and a classic militia regiment which was part of a long tradition of the use of such forces by the British Empire.