Friends and Enemies - The Allies and Neutral Ireland in the Second World War

This history of Anglo-American efforts to overturn Ireland's neutrality policy during the Second World War adds complexity to the grand narrative of the Western Alliance against the Axis Powers, exploring relatively unexamined emotional, personalised, and gendered politics that underlay policymaking and alliance relations. Friends and enemies combines the methodologies of diplomatic history through its close reliance on archival documentation with attention to new theoretical understandings regarding the roles played by personal friendships and enmities and competing masculine ideologies among national leaders. Including, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Eamon de Valera, and their close foreign policy advisers in London, Washington DC and Dublin, as they constructed national identities and defined their nations' special relationships in time of war.

About the author

Karen Garner is Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Empire State College in Latham, New York

Product details

• Authors: Karen Garner, Garner Karen
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781526172037
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-7203-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY / Military / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, military history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Ireland, Political leaders & leadership, Second World War, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Political leaders and leadership, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater