Fascinating study, based on the original German documents, of the nature of German diplomacy towards Ireland before and during the Second World War. The author also evaluates the integrity of British policy towards Dublin with particular reference to Churchill's public and private and public representation of his own aims. The substance of the book is based on the documents of Ambassador Eduard Hempel, allowing us to read the ambassador's own account of his initiatives towards a government and people with a complex and by no means unified attitude. This is the first study of Third Reich diplomacy with a Western nation based on the records of the appropriate embassy. 295 pages.