The Balkans in World War Two: Britain's Balkan dilemma

"In 1939 the British government discovered that its policy of appeasing Hitler was not working and that the United Kingdom needed allies. Much has already been written about this contentious time, but this book looks at an area often neglected: the Balkans. But life was no longer simple for Bri...

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1. Verfasser: Catherwood, Christopher (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke [u.a.] Palgrave Macmillan 2003
Ausgabe:1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"In 1939 the British government discovered that its policy of appeasing Hitler was not working and that the United Kingdom needed allies. Much has already been written about this contentious time, but this book looks at an area often neglected: the Balkans. But life was no longer simple for Britain, since in August 1939 the Soviets and Nazis signed a pact that was to alter everything - especially for the vulnerable countries of the Balkans, now feeling threatened not just by the Third Reich but also by the USSR. This made the Allied task of winning friends and gaining new allies even more difficult. On top of all this, there were those in both Britain and France who really wanted to go to war with the Soviet Union, since the Russians were giving Germany much-needed oil. Would war in the Balkans help - or make a dire situation potentially terminal?"--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XII, 207 S.
ISBN:0333741641