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

Grayson, Richard S.

Hambledon Continuum（2009/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781847250087
• DDC分類 940.412416

Full Description

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.

Contents

1. Sons of Cu Chulainn: Irish Men, British Soldiers; 2. Civil War? West Belfast, 1912-14; 3. Volunteers and Reserves - West Belfast, Newcastle and Fermoy, August 1914 to December 1915; 4. The British Expeditionary Force, 1914-15; 5. Gallipoli and the Eastern Front; 6. Arrival - Volunteers in France and Flanders, October 1915 to June 1916; 7. Slaughter - the Somme, July to September 1916; 8. Raiding Parties - Life in the Trenches, September 1916 to May 1917; 9. Together - Messines, June 1917; 10. Mud & Tanks - Third Ypres and Cambrai, July 1917 to February 1918; 11. Retreat - March to June 1918; 12. Victory - The Road Home, April to November 1918; 13. Peace and Partition; 14. Remembrance - The Politics of Memory, 1920 to the present.