Soldier of the queen - Bernard O'Mahoney

With Mick McGovern At the age of 19, Bernard O'Mahoney, facing a prison sentence for theft, joined the Professionals. Within months he found himself foot-slogging the border in the constituency of Bobby Sands, just as the MP approached the end of his hunger strike 'Bernard O'Mahoney's Soldier of the Queen captures perfectly the life of a British soldier at a key point in the history of Ireland in the late 20th century... as good a book as you are likely to find about militiary life and soldiering in Northern Ireland.' The Irish Times