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Britain and Poland 1939-1943
Author: Anita Prazmowska
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1995-03-23
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521483858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Poland was a problematic issue for the Big Powers throughout the Second World War. For Britain, Poland was a major stumbling block in British-Soviet relations as Polish-Soviet territorial disputes clashed with the needs of the British-Soviet-United States alliance. As the Polish government-in-exile attempted to obtain a guarantee of British support, and many thousands of Polish troops fought for the British cause, the perception grew that the Churchill government had a debt to pay. Ultimately, however, it was a debt which Britain could not discharge because of its dependence on Soviet participation in the war. In this book Anita Prazmowska looks at British policies from the point of view of wartime strategy, relating this to Polish government expectations and policies. She describes a tragic situation where Polish soldiers were trapped between the grandiose and unrealistic plans of their government and the harsh realities of a war which they fought with no prospect of a satisfactory outcome for them or their country.
British Policy Towards Poland, 1944–1956
Author: Andrea Mason
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-11-19
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 3319942417
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the outcome of the British commitment to reconstitute a sovereign Polish state and establish a democratic Polish government after the Second World War. It analyses the wartime origins of Churchill’s commitment to Poland, and assesses the reasons for the collapse of British efforts to support the leader of the Polish opposition, Stanisław Mikołajczyk, in countering the attempt by the Polish communist party to establish one-party rule after the war. This examination of Anglo-Polish relations is set within the broader context of emerging early Cold War tensions. It addresses the shift in British foreign policy after 1945 towards the US, the Soviet Union and Europe, as British leaders and policymakers adjusted both to the new post-war international circumstances, and to the domestic constraints which increasingly limited British policy options. This work analyses the reasons for Ernest Bevin’s decision to disengage from Poland, helping to advance the debate on the larger question of Bevin’s vision of Britain’s place within the newly reconfigured international system. The final chapter surveys British policy towards Poland from the period of Sovietisation in the late 1940s up to the October 1956 revolution, arguing that Poland’s process of liberalisation in the mid-1950s served as the catalyst for limited British reengagement in Eastern Europe.
British Policy Towards the Soviet Union During the Second World War
Author: Martin Kitchen
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Søgeord: Store Patriotiske Fædrelandskrig; Sovjetunionen, Historie, 1939-1945; England, Britain, Storbritanien; Finske Vinterkrig; Sovjetiske Grænser; Barbarossa; Churchill; Stalin; Hitler; Molotov; Nazityskland; Østfronten; Potsdam; Yalta; Kolde Krig; Jerntæppet; Kommunisme; Britisk-Russiske Traktat; Polen; Polske Spørgsmål; Polens Skæbne; Polen, 1945; Grænsedragning; Europa's Historie, 1939-1945; Lord Halifax; Engelsk Forsvarspolitik, Udenrigspolitik, Sikkerhedpsolitik, Diplomati; Diplomatiske Forhandlinger; Aftaler; Traktater; Ikke-Angrebspagt; Jugoslavien; Tyrkiet; Sovjetunionen Invasion af Polen; SOE; Second Front; Roosevelt; USA; Rumænien; Partisankrig; Katyn Massakren; Massemord; Olie; Kaukasus; Iran; Udryddelser; Folkedrab; Grænser; Grænsekampe; Torch; Velvet; Overlord; Jupiter; Gauntlet; Armina; Norge; Spitzbergen; Maisky; Molotov; Lockhart, B.; Indien; Harriman, A.; Ungarn;
British Foreign Policy During World War II, 1939-1945
Author: Vladimir Grigorʹevich Trukhanovskiĭ
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the Edges of Whiteness
Author: Jochen Lingelbach
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2020-05-01
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 178920447X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.
Poland and the Origins of the Second World War
Author: Marek Kornat
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2021-03-11
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9783631836477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This monograph deals with Polish foreign policy shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. In tracing the diplomatic activity of foreign minister Józef Beck, it discusses six general problems: (1) the Polish political situation under the pressure of appeasement; (2) the project of Intermarium and efforts to implement it; (3) the action against Czechoslovakia and the conflict with the Soviet Union; (4) the Polish attitude towards the German concept of Gesamtlosung in Germany's relations with Poland; (5) the genesis of the Polish alliance with Great Britain; (6) the Allies' military inaction after Nazi Germany's aggression. In these conditions, Poland made four key decisions: it stood against Czechoslovakia, it rejected German demands, it allied itself with the United Kingdom, and it rejected the Soviet Union's claim for the Red Army to march across Polish lands.
British Policy in South-East Europe in the Second World War
The Eagle Unbowed
Author: Halik Kochanski
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2012-11-27
Total Pages: 911
ISBN-13: 0674071050
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Second World War gripped Poland as it did no other country in Europe. Invaded by both Germany and the Soviet Union, it remained under occupation by foreign armies from the first day of the war to the last. The conflict was brutal, as Polish armies battled the enemy on four different fronts. It was on Polish soil that the architects of the Final Solution assembled their most elaborate network of extermination camps, culminating in the deliberate destruction of millions of lives, including three million Polish Jews. In The Eagle Unbowed, Halik Kochanski tells, for the first time, the story of Poland's war in its entirety, a story that captures both the diversity and the depth of the lives of those who endured its horrors. Most histories of the European war focus on the Allies' determination to liberate the continent from the fascist onslaught. Yet the "good war" looks quite different when viewed from Lodz or Krakow than from London or Washington, D.C. Poland emerged from the war trapped behind the Iron Curtain, and it would be nearly a half-century until Poland gained the freedom that its partners had secured with the defeat of Hitler. Rescuing the stories of those who died and those who vanished, those who fought and those who escaped, Kochanski deftly reconstructs the world of wartime Poland in all its complexity-from collaboration to resistance, from expulsion to exile, from Warsaw to Treblinka. The Eagle Unbowed provides in a single volume the first truly comprehensive account of one of the most harrowing periods in modern history.
Origin Of The Second World War
Author: A.J.P. Taylor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1996-04
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0684829479
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Back Cover: From the moment of its publication in 1961, A.J.P. Taylor's seminal work caused a storm of praise and controversy, and it has since been recognized as a classic: the first book ever to examine exclusively and in depth the causes of the Second World War and to apportion the responsibility among Allies and Germans alike. With crisp, clear prose and brilliant analysis, Taylor established that the war, "far from being premeditated, was a mistake, the result on both sides of diplomatic blunders." He argued that Hitler was more an opportunist than an ideologue who owed his successes to Great Britain's and France's tacking between resistance and appeasement, and to an American policy akin to "the significant episode of the dog in the night, to which Sherlock Holmes once drew attention. When Watson objected: 'But the dog did nothing in the night," Holmes answered: 'That was the significant episode.' "The Times Literary Supplement called The Origins of the Second World War "simple, devastating, superlatively readable, and deeply disturbing," and it remains so now-a groundbreaking book of enduring importance.
