Bøger af David Beresford

This little book is about some of the amusing and interesting people that I have met, and the events that have happened to me in the Christian ministry. It is not an autobiography but a few snapshots of things that I hope will cause you to smile and maybe inspire a little faith.

There has been a surge in interest in The Troubles in recent years, from Patrick Radden Keefe’s New York Times Bestselling Say Nothing, to Anna Burns’ Man Booker Prize winning The Milkman which sold 98,000 copies, and Jez Butterworth’s four-time Tony Award-winning play The Ferryman. We expect that this newly broadened audience will flock to Ten Men Dead, which remains a must-read account for anyone interested in this history.Since its first publication in 1987, Ten Men Dead has never gone out of print, as readers continue to find their way to Beresford’s abiding classic.Striking in its intimate reportage, Beresford worked primarily from hundreds of “comms” messages written by the strikers and smuggled out of the prison by visitors, who secreted them away in an IRA safehouse and granted unique access to Beresford. His access to these men’s stories is unparalleled and earned the book its reputation as “the best book to emerge from the past 20 years of the conflict in Northern Ireland.”Reprinting with a striking new cover featuring a mural of hunger striker Bobby Sands, this 25th anniversary edition will revitalize a definitive classic.

In 1981 ten men starved themselves to death inside the walls of Long Kesh prison in Belfast. While a stunned world watched and distraught family members kept bedside vigils, one "soldier" after another slowly went to his death in an attempt to make Margaret Thatcher's government recognize them as political prisoners rather than common criminals. Drawing extensively on secret IRA documents and letters from the prisoners smuggled out at the time, David Beresford tells the gripping story of these strikers and their devotion to the cause. An intensely human story, Ten Men Dead offers a searing portrait of strife-torn Ireland, of the IRA, and the passions - on both sides - that Republicanism arouses.