DEFENCE FORCES. A Call to Arms. A Historical Record of Ireland’s Defence Services. Foreword by Oscar Traynor. With five colour plates, numerous illustrations and adverts.

Dublin, Abbey Publications, n.d. (c.1945). Quarto. pp. 240. Pictorial wrappers, title in red and black. A few edge nicks as usual. A very good copy. Fine. Rare.

Dealing with all aspects of the Defence Services including: Five Years Agrowing; Battle Dress; Training the Soldier; The Army Medical Service; Army School of Music; The Signal Corps; Supply and Transport; The Making of an Officer; The Army Ordnance Corps; Sport in the Army; The Corps of Engineers; Entertaining the Troops; Brugh an Airm; The Volunteer Force; The Bugle Calls; The Military Police Service; The Army Nursing Service; The Marine Service; The Construction Corps; Passive Air Defence; The Local Security Force; The Artillery Corps; The Irish Red Cross Society; The Local Defence Force; The St. John Ambulance Brigade in Ireland, and The Order of Malta Ambulance Corps.
With contributions by: Col M.J. Costello; Col. F.J. Henry; Lieut. Douglas Gageby (later Editor of ‘The Irish Times’); Col. T. McGrath; Major General Aodh O’Neill, etc. etc.

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