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Belfast Boys : How Unionists and Nationalists Fought and Died Together in the First World War

By Richard S. Grayson

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year
2010
ISBN
9781441161611, 9781441105196
LCC
D547.I6G73 2010
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5097842 bytes)
Pages
273\0
Time added
2023-08-20 04:11:28
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Description

This is the story of men from either side of West Belfast's sectarian divide during the Great War. Richard S. Grayson follows the volunteers of the 36th and 16th divisions who fought on the Somme and side-by-side at Messines, recovering the forgotten West Belfast men 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.

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