Origins of EU came from the ashes of WWII

A book lent to me before the 80th anniversary of the start of WWII on September 1 was Dark Times, Decent Men: Stories of Irishmen in World War II. They from the North and South of Ireland and were in the British army, navy and the RAF and armies and merchant navies of the USA, Canada, Australia etc.

One of them was Maurice French from Wellingtonbridge, Co Wexford.