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Belfast Boys Professor Richard S. Grayson (Golsmiths University, UK)

Belfast Boys By Professor Richard S. Grayson (Golsmiths University, UK)

Belfast Boys by Professor Richard S. Grayson (Golsmiths University, UK)

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Summary

Tells the story of the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines throughout the First World War. The author also brings in forgotten West Belfast men from throughout the armed forces, from the retreat at Mons to the defeat of Germany and life post-war.

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Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War by Professor Richard S. Grayson (Golsmiths University, UK)

This is the compelling story of West Belfast's involvement fighting on the Western Front throughout the First World War. This is the story of men from either side of West Belfast's sectarian divide during the Great War. This dramatic book tells the story of the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines. Grayson also brings in forgotten West Belfast men from throughout the armed forces, from the retreat at Mons to the defeat of Germany and life post-war. In so doing, he tells a new story which challenges popular perceptions of the war and explains why remembrance remains so controversial in Belfast today.

Belfast Boys Reviews

'Provocative, meticulously researched and referenced.' - Irish Times 'A highly considered work of careful and scholarly reclamation, and a vivid evocation of a divided city' - Sunday Business Post '[Grayson] provides a new form of social-military history... [A] painstaking study... This book provides an invaluable service to both sides in their bid to evaluate individual and shared histories.' - Times Higher Education 'Highly readable' - Myles Dungan, Today with Pat Kenny, RTE Radio 1 'A brilliant book' - Dr Patrick Geoghegan, Talking History, Newstalk 106-108FM

About Professor Richard S. Grayson (Golsmiths University, UK)

Dr. Richard S. Grayson is Head of the Politics Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where he is also Senior Lecturer in British and Irish Politics. A former Director of Policy of the Liberal Democrats, he has written two books on interwar British political history. His great-uncle, from Lurgan, Co Armagh, served and died (in September 1915) on the Western Front in the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles.

Table of Contents

1. Civil War?; 2. Volunteers and Reserves; 3. The British Expeditionary Force, 1914-15; 4. The Nature of War; 5. Gallipoli and the Eastern Front; 6. Arrivals and Executions; 7. The Ulster Division on the Somme; 8. The Other Somme; 9. On and On; 10. Messines; 11. Mud; 12. Retreat; 13. Victory; 14. Peace and Partition; 15. Remembrance 16; Appendix: Methods and Patterns of 'Military History from the Street'.

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GOR003572578
9781441105196
1441105190
Belfast Boys: How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War by Professor Richard S. Grayson (Golsmiths University, UK)
Professor Richard S. Grayson (Golsmiths University, UK)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Continuum Publishing Corporation
2010-09-23
272
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