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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Tác giả chính: Garner, Karen (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press 2021.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv1sjwnj1
Mục lục:
  • 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