Returning home: Irish ex-servicemen after the Second World War Bernard Kelly (Merrion, €17.99) ISBN 9781908928009

Returning home explores, without being sentimental or shrill, the post-war experiences in Ireland of the 130,000 Irish men and women from widely different backgrounds who joined the British military during World War II. Ireland was the only European neutral whose nationals voluntarily joined a belligerent power on a large scale. Other 1939 neutrals were either ... Read more

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