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Some of the most formidable names in international history focus on the themes: the League of Nations and collective security, problems in British foreign policy, and European/international security in the interwar years.
List of contents
Foreword by Donald Cameron Watt Introduction 1. Economics and the crisis of British Foreign Policy management, 1914-45 2. Intelligence and the Lytton Commission, 1931-34 3. The Geneva Disarmament Conference, 1932-34 4. The Chiefs of Staff, the `men-on-the-spot' and the Italo-Abyssinian emergency, 1935-36 5. The `proffered gift': the Vatican and the abortive Yugoslav concordat of 1935-37 6. Britain, France and the Spanish problem, 1936-39 7. Britain and appeasement in the late 1930s: was there a League of Nations' alternative 8. The atomic bomb and the Korean War 9. Restoring the `special relationship': the Bermuda and Washington conferences, 1957
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Dick Richardson, Professor Glyn A Stone, Glyn Stone
Summary
Some of the most formidable names in international history focus on the themes: the League of Nations and collective security, problems in British foreign policy, and European/international security in the interwar years.
