Casualties of war pile up in a harrowing collection of stories
Redeployment. By Phil Klay. Canongate, €18.90. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger.
When the Troubles erupted in Northern Ireland in 1969, the wives of some Scandinavian journalists (war correspondents almost exclusively being men back then) openly fretted that their husbands would return from Belfast in need of medical treatment. Their fears proved correct: within months, the first journalistic casualties were shipped back to Stockholm and Oslo - victims not of the IRA or the UVF, but of the Ulster fry served each morning in the ...
