Belfast Boys

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.

"'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"

• 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'.