There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the Ira, and Two Minutes That Changed History Carroll Rory
Say Nothing meets The Day of the Jackal in this gripping and illuminating story about a history-changing moment of violence. Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, a lethal explosion, and the epic manhunt that…
Specifikacia There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the Ira, and Two Minutes That Changed History Carroll Rory
Say Nothing meets The Day of the Jackal in this gripping and illuminating story about a history-changing moment of violence. Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, a lethal explosion, and the epic manhunt that followed--a Guardian journalist brings all of this together in the first full-length book about the 1984 Brighton Bombing.The IRA bomb exploded at 2:54 a.m. on October 12, 1984, the last day of the Conservative Party Conference in the coastal town of Brighton, England. Rooms were obliterated, dozens of people wounded, five people killed. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was in the lounge of her suite preparing her keynote speech when the explosion occurred; had she been just a few feet in another direction, flying tiles and masonry might have sliced her to ribbons. As it was, she survived--and history changed.There Will Be Fire is the gripping