Britain, Ireland, and the Second World War

Ian S. Wood

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April, 2010
Cloth, 224 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2327-3
Edinburgh University Press
$95.00

Written by an renowned expert on World War II, Britain, Ireland, and the Second World War synthesizes published research and information from newly recovered primary sources. The book follow a thematic rather than a chronological approach, illustrating particular areas of Britain’s wartime relationship with the Irish state, as well as closely related issues such as the role of Northern Ireland and the IRA.

Related Subjects

• European History

Series

• Societies at War (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

Ian S. Wood is the author of two studies of Winston Churchill and a biography of the Scottish Socialist John Wheatley. He has written Ireland During the Second World War and God, Guns, and Ulster, a history of paramilitary Loyalism, and has edited Scotland and Ulster. For many years he edited the Scottish Labour History Journal and covered the conflict in Northern Ireland for several newspapers, including The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday. He is a former lecturer in history at Napier University, Edinburgh, and still teaches part-time for the Open University.

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