My Father's Watch: The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain

by Patrick Maguire

Book Overview

The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the 'Maguire Seven', wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA.

On the night of October 5 1974, an IRA unit left bombs in two Guildford pubs: five people were killed. On the night of December 3 1974, on the strength of fabricated testimony extracted under duress from Paul Hill and Gerard Conlon (whom the police mistakenly believed had planted the Guildford bombs),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 000724214X
• ISBN13: 9780007242146
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"