Britain, Ireland and the Second World War

by Ian S. Wood

For Britain the Second World War exists in popular memory as a time of heroic sacrifice, survival and ultimate victory over Fascism. In the Irish state the years 1939-1945 are still remembered simply as 'the Emergency'. Eire was one of many small states which in 1939 chose not to stay out of the war but one of the few able to maintain its non-belligerency as a policy.How much this owed to Britain's military resolve or to the political skills of amon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748623272
• ISBN13: 9780748623273
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher