This difficult to find (in its original edition) volume of the Second World War Official History sequence contains details of Defence & Internal Security arrangements, long with matter relating to the Battle of the Atlantic, accounts of Northern Ireland units (Ulster Rifles, The Inniskillings) on various fronts from France & Norway in 1940 to Middle East, Burma, Normandy 1944 & onwards in NW Europe 1944-45, also the effects of air raids, and the presence of US bases. Among the subjects dealt with are Irish citizens who wished to enlist with the Allies, and the question of Eire's neutrality