Small Nations in Times of Crisis and ConfrontationThe question is, how should small states behave under pressure? The analysis is of three cases: Czechoslavakia in 1938, Poland from 1939 to 1945, and Finland in 1940 and 41. The author is scrupulous in not drawing too many general lessons from these cases, but the imprudence of overreliance on great power protection and of ceding to justifications for surrender based on self-determination are made clear. |
Contents
An Obstacle on the Road to Lebensraum | 7 |
In the Crucible of Appeasement | 15 |
Munich | 31 |
Surrender | 39 |
Poland and Her Neighbors | 53 |
Poland Between the Two Wars | 55 |
The War | 81 |
Under the Yoke of Occupation | 97 |
Talks in the Kremlin | 247 |
War | 263 |
The Course of the Battles | 273 |
World Sympathy and its Expressions | 277 |
Peace Feelers | 289 |
The Front Collapses | 297 |
The Affair of the EnglishFrench Expeditionary Force | 307 |
The Fateful Decision | 315 |
The London Government | 105 |
The Teheran Conference | 135 |
Between Teheran and Yalta | 153 |
The Yalta Conference | 185 |
Potsdam and Its Implications | 207 |
FinlandThe Winter War | 235 |
The Thunderhead Looms | 237 |
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