Terror Attack Brighton - Blowing Up the Iron Lady

by Kieran Hughes

The Brighton bombing in 1984 was the most audacious terrorist attack ever on the British Government. Certainly it was the most ambitious since the Gunpowder plot of 1605. The Provisional I.R.A. detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel on 12th October 1984. Most of the Government were staying at the hotel at the time. The Conservative party was holding its annual conference in the town. Five people were killed in the explosion, and more than thirty were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473823293
• ISBN13: 9781473823297
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Social History
• Length: 224 Pages