Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War

This book is the first to highlight the importance of the Baltic region in the approach to war in 1939. Amid the welter of publications on the origins of the Second World War none has sought hitherto to focus on the Baltic region, where peace finally and irrevocably broke down. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Introduction: Baltic security problems between the two World Wars John Hiden; 2. Great Britain and the Baltic in the last months of peace, March-August 1939 Mieczyslaw Nurek; 3. Nazi German policy towards the Baltic states on the eve of the Second World War Rolf Ahmann; 4. The role of Danzig in Polish-German relations on the eve of the Second World War Anita Prazmowska; 5. Great Britain, the Soviet Union and Finland at the beginning of the Second World War Patrick Salmon; 6. The attitude of the Scandinavian countries to Nazi Germany's war preparations and its aggression on Poland Bogdan Koszel; 7. The Soviet occupation of Poland through British eyes Thomas Lane; 8. The meeting of the Lithuanian Cabinet, 15 June 1940 Alfonsas Eidintas; Index.

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• Authors: John Hiden, John Lane Hiden
• Assisted by: John Hiden (Editor), Thomas Lane (Editor), Lane Thomas (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.01.2003
• EAN: 9780521531207
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53120-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, International Relations, Baltic Sea, Second World War, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)