Publisher's Synopsis
For the first time, an outside observer has been given permission to accompany a battalion of the British Army into Northern Ireland on a tour of duty.;In this book the author accompanies a battalion to West Belfast - the so-called peace line between the Falls Road and the Shankill and live with and experience what the ordinary soldier goes through: patrolling the streets, keeping the peace, investigating bomb threats, arresting and questioning suspects, the fear of the snipper's bullet and the separation from family and loved ones.