European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents During the Second World War

ISBN-13: 9780521643580 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 382 str.

Wylie, Neville

Opis

This collection provides the most comprehensive English-language survey of the conduct of neutral and non-belligerent states during the war for fifty years. The essays focus on how individual neutral governments perceived international developments and reveal the domestic political circumstances that critically affected their response to the course of the war. They therefore provide the political context that has been overlooked in recent controversies surrounding their humanitarian and financial activities, and offer analytical introductions to the large amount of historical writing unavailable in English.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: '… the book is attractively presented. There are handy short identifications of the contributors and the notes are at the bottom of the pages …'. H-Diplo

Spis treści

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. Živojinovič; 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.