Britain, Ireland and the Second World War [[electronic resource] /] / Ian S. Wood

• Autore: Wood Ian S
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 941.70822
• Soggetto topico: World War, 1939-1945 - Ireland; World War, 1939-1945 - Participation, Irish
• Soggetto geografico: Ireland Politics and government 1922-1949; Great Britain Foreign relations Ireland; Ireland Foreign relations Great Britain
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-230) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 - The Origins of Eire's Neutrality; 2 - Eire's Emergency, Britain's War; 3 - Eire: Crisis and Survival; 4 - Security, Censorship and Propaganda; 5 - Fanatic Hearts: The IRA, 1939-45; 6 - Eire in the Emergency and the Irish in Britain; 7 - Northern Ireland at War; 8 - Emergency, War and their Aftermath; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Éamon 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 Winst
• Titolo autorizzato: Britain, Ireland and the Second World War
• ISBN: 0-7486-5141-1; 0-7486-3001-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791258703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Societies at war.