Philip Ollerenshaw is Reader in History at the University of the West of England, Bristol

'Ollerenshaw skillfully explains the interplay between the major forces of economic mobilization, politics and social policy…Northern Ireland in the Second World War is a valuable look at the place and time. It is a study which helps fill a significant research gap in British, Irish and Second World War studies’ Mark M. Hull, US Army Command and General Staff College, Kansas, Journal of Military History‘Ollerenshaw deals with Northern Ireland's unique political and economic situation skilfully, using a breadth of archival material, providing the reader with a sense of the impact and legacy of the war. This will unquestionably be an important work for anyone interested in the history of Northern Ireland during the middle part of the twentieth century, or to those interested in the mobilisation of societies during the Second World War.’William Butler, University of Kent, Irish Studies Review'Philip Ollerenshaw's excellent book...a tightly organised, dryly funny and genuinely eye-opening panorama...It contributes substantially to the wider project of recalibrating study of the war to a regional scale'. Marc Mulholland, St Catherine's College, Oxford, Irish Historical Studies

• IntroductionI. The background to war2. Problems of economic mobilisation, 1939–c.19413. The war economy 1941–454. Early wartime politics and society5. Later wartime politics and society ConclusionSelect BibliographyIndex