European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents During the Second World War

Klappentext A comprehensive English-language survey of neutral and non-belligerent states during the Second World War. Zusammenfassung This collection provides a comprehensive English-language survey of the conduct of neutral and non-belligerent states during the war. The essays focus on how individual neutral governments perceived international developments and how their domestic political circumstances critically affected their responses to the course of the war. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: victims or actors? European neutrals and non-belligerents, 1939-45 Neville Wylie; Part I. The 'Phoney War' Neutrals: 1. Denmark, September 1939-April 1940 Hans Kirchhoff; 2. Norway Patrick Salmon; 3. The Netherlands Bob Moore; 4. Belgium: fragile neutrality, solid neutralism Alain Colignon; Part II. The 'Wait and See' Neutrals: Map of South-East Europe and the Balkans, 1939-41; 5. 'Where one man, and only one man, led': Italy's path from non-alignment to non-belligerency to war, 1937-40 Brian R. Sullivan; 6. Treaty revision and doublespeak: Hungarian neutrality, 1939-41 Tibor Frank; 7. Romanian neutrality 1939-40 Maurice Pearton; 8. Bulgarian neutrality: domestic and international perspectives Vesselin Dimitrov; 9. Yugoslavia Dragoljub R. Živojinovi¿; Part III. The 'Long Haul' Neutrals: 10. Spain and the Second World War, 1939-45 Elena Hernández-Sandoica and Enrique Moradiello; 11. Portuguese neutrality in the Second World War Fernando Rosas; 12. Irish neutrality in the Second World War Eunan O'Halpin; 13. Swedish neutrality during the Second World War: tactical success or moral compromise? Paul A. Levine; 14. Switzerland: a neutral of distinction? Neville Wylie; Appendix; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Neville Wylie, Neville (Professor Wylie
• Assisted by: Neville Wylie (Editor), Wylie Neville (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521153621
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15362-1
• No. of pages: 382
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater