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      UVF

      In memory of my grandparents,

      May and Jackie Graham

      UVF

      BEHIND

      THE MASK

      AARON EDWARDS

      First published in 2017 by

      Merrion Press

      10 George’s Street

      Newbridge

      Co. Kildare

      Ireland

       www.merrionpress.ie

      © 2017, Aaron Edwards

      978-1-78537-087-8 (Paper)

      978-1-78537-088-5 (Kindle)

      978-1-78537-106-6 (Epub)

      978-1-78537-125-7 (PDF)

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

      An entry can be found on request

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

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      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved alone, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      Interior design by www.jminfotechindia.com Typeset in Minion Pro 11/14 pt

      Cover design by www.phoenix-graphicdesign.com

      Cover front: © Extramural Activity, 2014

      Cover back: © private collection

      ‘All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences.’

      Albert Camus, The Plague (1947)

      ‘We have been the silent witnesses of evil deeds.’

      Dietrich Bonhoeffer, After Ten Years (1953)

      Aaron Edwards has been a Senior Lecturer in Defence and International Affairs at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst since 2008. He is the author of several books, including Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the End of Empire (2014) and War: A Beginner’s Guide (2017). His work has featured in the Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph, Belfast Newsletter and Irish News.

      ‘I have no doubt that in time to come, this new book by Aaron Edwards will be seen as the definitive history of the loyalist paramilitary grouping known as the Ulster Volunteer Force.’

      Hugh Jordan, Sunday World

      ‘The Ulster Volunteer Force can legitimately claim to have played an important role in the defeat of the Provisional IRA through its use of extreme violence, at times similar to what we have witnessed from ISIS. Aaron Edwards’ work is easily the best account of this little known but possibly most successful terror group of the Northern Ireland Troubles.’

      Jim Cusack, Irish Independent

      CONTENTS

       Author’s Note

       Dramatis Personae

       Acknowledgements

       Foreword

       Preface

       Prologue. The Two Billys

       1. The Bishop

       2. ‘Hell Slap it into Them’

       3. Liquidating the Enemy

       4. The Beginning of the End

       5. Talking and Killing

       6. Regimental Loyalty

       7. The Shankill and its Butchers

       8. ‘That Bastard Murphy’

       9. A Million Miles from Home

       10. An Atmosphere of Pure History

       11. At the Bottom of the Well

       12. Compromise or Conflict

       13. The Kitchen Cabinet

       14. In the Hands of Philistines

       15. Their only Crime was Loyalty

       16. An Intense and Loyal Following

       17. ‘You’re Either With Us or Against Us’

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