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Britain, Ireland and the Second World War

Britain, Ireland and the Second World War

by Wood, Ian S.

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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 t…