Publisher's Synopsis
"Emergency Tour" is an account of a four-month military tour of Ulster in 1976 when the author was in command of 3 Para, the Third Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, in County Armagh. He describes the day-to-day life of the soldiers and the military and political difficulties he had to face.;Peter Morton kept a diary during this period and he has used it to provide a detailed account of the Battalion's operations.
