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Robert Nairac: brave to a fault

The brutal murder by the IRA of the courageous Grenadier Guards officer who took one risk too many is given the fullest treatment yet in Alistair Kerr’s Betrayal

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

2 January 2016

9:00 AM

Betrayal: The Murder of Robert Nairac GC Alistair Kerr

Cambridge Academic, pp.455, £16.95, ISBN: 9781903499856

Captain Robert Nairac was a Grenadier Guards officer serving in Northern Ireland when on 14 May 1977 he was abducted and murdered by the Provisional IRA. Mystery surrounding the circumstances of his abduction and the fact that his body has never been found have provoked a minor literary industry. This must be the most comprehensive account yet.

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