Friends and enemies : the Allies and neutral Ireland in the Second World War /
This history examines the fraternal friendships and embittered masculine conflicts among British, American, and Irish national leaders and their Dublin-based advisers during the Second World War, as those leaders sought to secure - or reject - Ireland's alliance with the Western Allied powers i...
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Manchester [UK] :
Manchester University Press
2021.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1sjwnj1 |
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Map of Eire during the Emergency
- Introduction
- Agreements made, pledges broken: Europe in the 1930s
- Neutral states in a world at war, September 1939 to May 1940
- "Unstoppable" Germany, "unbeatable" Britain, June to December 1940
- In pursuit of America's friendship, January to June 1941
- British friend, Irish foe, July to December 1941
- Efforts to "break the backbone" of Irish neutrality, January 1942 to December 1943
- Eire, neutral to the bitter end, January 1944 to June 1945
- Conclusion