| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 520 pages) |
| Series |
History of warfare, 1385-7827 ; v. 87 |
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History of warfare ; v. 87
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| Contents |
Part I. The Great Powers and Their Approaches to the Region -- Containment and Cold War before the Nuclear Age : The Phoney War as Allied Strategy According to Liddell Hart / Azar Gat -- Responding with Kindness or in Kind? On Conceptions of War and the Democracies' Response to Military Threats / Jeppe Plenge Trautner -- The Only British Advantage : Sea Power and Strategy, September 1939-June 1940 / Andrew Lambert -- The Soviet Policy towards the Baltic States in 1939-41 / Boris Vadimovich Sokolov -- Soviet Naval Perceptions of the Baltic Sea, 1938-41 / Gunnar Aselius -- The Long and Winding Road to Weserubung / Michael Epkenhans -- Slipping into the War : German Naval Strategy between 1920 and 1940 / Jorg Hillmann -- Part II. The Fourth Partition of Poland-Lithuania and Other Effects of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -- The Lithuanian Reaction to the Loss of Klaipeda and the Combined Gift of Soviet "Security Assistance" and Vilnius / Ceslovas Laurinavicius -- Polish Perceptions of the Strategic Situation on the Eve of the Second World War / Slawomir Debski -- Government and Public Reaction in Estonia to Soviet Pressure and the Events of September-December 1939 / Magnus Ilmjarv -- Responses During the First Months of the Second World War : The Latvian Government, Army, Society and the Finnish Winter War / Valters Scerbinskis -- Part III. Scandinavia and Weserubung -- Norway and the Withering League of Nations / Karl Erik Haug -- A German Menace to Norway : The Evolution of Threat Perceptions and Strategy between the Wars / Tom Kristiansen -- The Strategic Considerations and Actions of the Danish Commanding Admiral in the Years before the German Occupation in 1940 / Hans Christian Bjerg -- The Armoured Commerce Raider : The Concept that Guided German Naval Lobbying for Control of Norway / Michael H. Clemmesen -- Unternehmen Weserubung April 1940 : The German and Allied Strategy and Operational Approaches in Northern Europe, 1939-40 / Werner Rahn with Milan Vego -- British Operational Responses to German Control of Denmark and Norway, April 1940-June 1941 / Marcus S. Faulkner -- The Two Norways, 1940-41 / Ole Kristian Grimnes -- Part IV. The Final Months of Soviet Geostrategic Preparations -- Soviet Military Preparations in Estonia during the Year before Barbarossa / Toomas Hiio -- Swedish Responses to Soviet Moves East of the Baltic Sea : The Baltic States in Swedish Military Planning, 1939-41 / Lars Ericson Wolke -- Part V. The Historiography -- Weserubung in German and Norwegian Historiography / Rolf Hobson -- Conspiracy, Guilt and Rationality : The Memory and History of the German Military Occupation of Denmark on 9 April 1940 / Palle Roslyng-Jensen -- Problems of Baltic Historiography, 1939-41 / Alfred Erich Senn |
| Summary |
Northern European Overture to War offers an international perspective on the diplomatic and military factors that shaped the course of events in Northern Europe as the region became increasingly drawn into the wider great power war |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe, Northern
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Scandinavia
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Diplomatic history
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Military campaigns
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Military operations, Naval
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Strategic aspects of individual places
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Baltic Sea -- History, Naval -- 20th century
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Europe, Northern -- Strategic aspects
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Scandinavia -- Strategic aspects.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85117954
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Baltic Sea Region -- Strategic aspects
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| Subject |
Atlantic Ocean -- Baltic Sea
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Europe -- Baltic Sea Region
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Northern Europe
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Scandinavia
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| Genre/Form |
Naval history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clemmesen, Michael Hesselholt, 1944-
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Faulkner, Marcus
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| ISBN |
9004249095 |
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9789004249097 |
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