Military Intervention in Britain: from the Gordon riots to the Gibraltar incident

Military Intervention in Britain: from the Gordon riots to the Gibraltar incident

"The military is supposed to stand aside from British society. Only when soldiers are called on to act `in the aid of the civil power', can they intervene. But Judge Anthony Babington shows in this book that from the earliest times to the present the British have relied on the military for the preservation of law and order, as the army has been called in to deal with riots, the dislocation resulting from strikes, the disturbances in Northern Ireland and the fight against terrorism, which culminated in the dramatic killing of three unarmed members of the IRA in Gibralter." (Publishers text)

Babington, Anthony

Routledge 1991, pp242, Notes, Bibliography, Index

SR M 209