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Author Stoker, Donald J

Title Britain, France, and the naval arms trade in the Baltic, 1919-1939 : grand strategy and failure / Donald J. Stoker, Jr
Published London : Frank Cass, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 242 pages)
Series Cass series--naval policy and history, 1366-9478 ; 18
Cass series--naval policy and history ; 18. 1366-9478
Contents War, intervention, and the birth of the successor states, 1914-19 -- Naval development in the Baltic successor states, 1918-22 -- Unintended consequences: the effects of the Washington naval treaties on the Baltic -- Contracts, competition, and corruption, 1923-25 -- General Kirke's mission to Finland, 1924-25 -- New contracts, new competition, new corruption, 1926-32 -- The German projects: Finnish naval development and Anglo-French failure, 1926-34 -- The final sales, 1933-39 -- The British naval treaties and British abandonment, 1935-39 -- Grand strategy and failure -- Conclusion
Summary Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Arms transfers -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Marine & Naval.
Arms transfers
Military relations
SUBJECT Europe -- History, Naval -- 20th century
Great Britain -- Military relations -- Baltic Sea Region
France -- Military relations -- Baltic Sea Region
Baltic Sea Region -- Military relations -- Great Britain
Baltic Sea Region -- Military relations -- France
Subject Europe
Europe -- Baltic Sea Region
France
Great Britain
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Naval history
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203519647
9780203519646
0203495012
9780203495018
9780714653198
0714653195