Bloody Sunday

Truths, Lies, & the Saville Inquiry

By: Douglas Murray

Narrated by: Michael Fenton Stevens

Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

Bloody Sunday was the worst massacre of British citizens by British troops since Peterloo in 1819 - a potent distillation of the rage and anguish of a bitter conflict that spanned decades and claimed three and a half thousand lives.

In 2002, when the Saville Inquiry transferred from Derry to London, author Douglas Murray began attending daily to hear at firsthand the testimony of the soldiers and members of the IRA who had been there that dreadful day. What he discovered was a devastating story of ordinary people thrown into the most terrible of situations, a story not only more straightforward than the British army would like to admit, but more complex than the IRA has always claimed.

This book is not solely about a shocking event or a process of justice; it is about the efforts of a group of people to arrive at truth and a country’s attempt - three decades on - at painful and perhaps incomplete reconciliation.

Douglas Murray is a best-selling author and award-winning political journalist based in London. From 2007 to 2011 he was the director of the Centre for Social Cohesion in London. He is now a Senior Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. Read by Michael Fenton Stevens (Last Trains, MI9, Whisper Wings, The Science of the Discworld, Long Earth, Long War, David Jason: Autobiography, Spitting Image, KYTV)

WARNING - this audiobook contains some strong language and descriptions of violence & injuries.

©2011 Biteback Publishing (P)2014 Spokenworld Audio & Ladbroke Audio Ltd

Sad but fascinating

This was a very informative well written book. I ended up listening to the whole thing in 2 days because it was so fascinating. Living in London as a teen during a period of time when the IRA was regularly bombing us I have very negative feelings towards them, I still do but listening to this gave me a much greater understanding of what motivated the people that did it. What a great shame the UK government did what they did to the Irish and what an even greater shame that the men who carried out these atrocities were able to live without punishment for their acts, some continuing to harm people for the rest of their lives.

Murray is a Prodigy

Bloody Sunday a comprehensive, yet accessible recounting of the events and circumstances around the sectarian violence in Northern Ireland in the late 1970s. It is also a good example of the limitations of examining an event after decades of time has passed.

The writing is well crafted and the precise narration does this important work justice.

Amazing book!

Amazing account of the complexities of this type of conflict-there are no winners. Years later, it becomes almost impossible to determine who fired at who, who fired first, who was "justified" and who not, how memory is so reconstructive, and why people are often so afraid to come forward and report what they saw--or what they thought they saw.

Excellent write up

I didn’t know anything more about this event than what I picked up from U2’s song of the same name. Murray’s deep dive is extraordinarily detailed and his conclusion about this horrifying event equally applicable to the US’ current struggle against militant leftism.

Phenomenal writing and narration

I had no exposure to the topic but am a great admirer of Douglas Murray. He wrote a gripping, engaging account of a highly complex and charged event.