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is it any good and does it imply scargill was on the other side.

I haven't - explain...? Is it any good?

Originally posted by BoroughGal
I haven't - explain...? Is it any good?

i don't konw..thats why i was askin.......wanna know before i buy it

Reviewer: A reader from Crawley, West Sussex United Kingdom

When newspapers pronounce the guilt of a high profile figure, they splash the story across the front-page. When it later transpires that the story is false, they may occasionally print a retraction or correction - but they usually "stick it inside somewhere" at the bottom of a page.

This excellent book provides a thorough account of the real truth behind the smear campaign of the early 1990's directed against the National Union of Miners and Arthur Scargill in particular. A campaign with one goal, but many players - the media, the Tory government and the security services - the objective of which was to follow through Margaret Thatcher's aim of ensuring the coal miners (and unions in general) would never again be in a position where they might hold the country to ransom, or bring down a government.

Seumas Milne's updated and exhaustive work exposes the truth, once and for all, about a campaign that ultimately failed because it was based on a foundation of lies and misinformation.

Milne only touches on the strike itself, and twenty years on there is a real need for a similarly exhaustive study of the 84-85 miners strike to accompany this book (hopefully written by an correspondingly impartial observer), so that students and historians can in the future, fully understand the lasting significance of these events.

The book itself in extremely well written and makes easy reading. If I have one criticism, it would be regarding Milne's explanation of the truth about the "Libyan money". The point is clearly made quite early on, but reiterated and re-explained too often afterwards.


From here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1844675084/026-7362649-4457212)

cheers cgk :thumbsup:

If you read it Kirky, let me know what you reckon, might read it myself.

Impressive endorsement from Pilger, looks like I've got some holiday reading sorted

I would be interested in buying one, which is the best place to buy one ?

I do know that whatever the book says Scargill didn't lie about Thatcher and her hatred of the unions, or about her desire to destroy the coal mining industry in this country.

I had this book after hearing the author on the radio talking about his investigation etc,
but the book I found to be so boring I only managed to read about 30 pages.
As far as I remember it is full of references to politicians and people involved with the NUM and coal industry who most people have never heard of. It was one of those books where I had to read some pages twice because my mind was wandering due to me finding it less than interesting.

Arthurs ex PA comes to our group and I could tell you stuff about him to make even his hair curl.

I met Arthur at Grunwicks and found him a very knowledgeble and interesting man.