The Balkans in World War Two: Britain’s Balkan Dilemma

✍ Scribed by Christopher Catherwood (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 220
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
The Spring and Summer of 1939: Britain’s Balkan Dilemma Begins....Pages 11-57
Autumn 1939....Pages 58-102
Finland, the Plan to Bomb the Caucasus Oil Fields, and Italy’s Entry into the War....Pages 103-128
The Cripps Mission and Turco—Soviet Relations, June–November 1940....Pages 129-149
From the Italian Invasion of Greece to the German Invasion of the Soviet Union....Pages 150-166
Conclusion....Pages 167-170
Back Matter....Pages 171-207

✦ Subjects

Political History; History of Military; International Relations; European History; History of Britain and Ireland; Modern History

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