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Britain, Ireland and the Second World War (Hardcover, New)
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Britain, Ireland and the Second World War (Hardcover, New)
Series: Societies at War
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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 Eamon de Valera is a key question which this
new book will explore. It will also examine the tensions Eire's
policy created in its relations with Winston Churchill and with the
United States. The author also explores propaganda, censorship and
Irish state security and the degree to which it involves secret
co-operation with Britain. Disturbing issues are also raised like
the IRA's relationship to Nazi Germany and ambivalent Irish
attitudes to the Holocaust.
Drawing upon both published and unpublished sources, this book
illustrates the war's impact on people on both sides of the border
and shows how it failed to resolve sectarian problems in Northern
Ireland while raising higher the barriers of misunderstanding
between it and the Irish state across its border.
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