Belfast Diaries

"It''s a very weird sensation to be shot at… Very often you see the gunman when it''s too late or you don''t see him at all. You might as well just be targets on a rifle range. I often wondered if I would get through this tour ok, and even now I still do… "

In the four-month period during 1971 that Gunner Stephen Corbett was stationed in Andersontown, Northern Ireland, 33 servicemen were killed by ...