Brian Girvin
Autor(a) de The Emergency: Neutral Ireland 1939-45
About the Author
Brian Girvin is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Glasgow.
Obras de Brian Girvin
Ireland and The Second World War 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
Membros
Resenhas
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 10
- Membros
- 54
- Popularidade
- #299,230
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 14
Girvin’s focus in these pages is on the political and diplomatic history of the period. Only one chapter looks at the broader social aspects of the conflict, and that one is a study of those Irish who enlisted in the British military. The rest offer a detailed and dry description of the Irish government’s determined effort to remain neutral despite the enormous political pressure brought to bear on it, particularly by Britain and the United States. While useful as an up-to-date description of Ireland’s sometimes tortuous efforts to navigate a safe path between the two sides, for a fuller picture of the Irish wartime experience it should be read in conjunction with Clair Wills’s excellent [b:That Neutral Island|965190|That Neutral Island A History of Ireland during the Second World War|Clair Wills|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347469595s/965190.jpg|876451], which describes the broader social and cultural impact of the war on the Emerald Isle.… (mais)