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基本説明
This collectoin provides the most comprehensive English-language survey of the conduct of neutral and non-belligerent states during the war.
Full Description
This collection provides a comprehensive English-language survey of the conduct of neutral and non-belligerent states during the war. Instead of narrowly focusing on the few neutrals that survived the war intact, the volume broadens our understanding of neutrality, by including chapters on 'non-belligerents' and those neutrals of south-east Europe, such as Romania and Yugoslavia. The essays focus on how individual neutral governments perceived international developments and throw light on the domestic political circumstances that critically affected their response to the course of the war. They therefore provide the political context that has been overlooked in controversies surrounding their humanitarian and financial activities. While based on the authors' own research, the essays draw widely on secondary literature and provide invaluable analytical introductions to the large amount of historical writing on these countries.
Contents
List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: victims or actors? European neutrals and non-belligerents, 1939-45 Neville Wylie; Part I. The 'Phoney War' Neutrals: 1. Denmark, September 1939-April 1940 Hans Kirchhoff; 2. Norway Patrick Salmon; 3. The Netherlands Bob Moore; 4. Belgium: fragile neutrality, solid neutralism Alain Colignon; Part II. The 'Wait and See' Neutrals: Map of South-East Europe and the Balkans, 1939-41; 5. 'Where one man, and only one man, led': Italy's path from non-alignment to non-belligerency to war, 1937-40 Brian R. Sullivan; 6. Treaty revision and doublespeak: Hungarian neutrality, 1939-41 Tibor Frank; 7. Romanian neutrality 1939-40 Maurice Pearton; 8. Bulgarian neutrality: domestic and international perspectives Vesselin Dimitrov; 9. Yugoslavia Dragoljub R. Živojinovič; Part III. The 'Long Haul' Neutrals: 10. Spain and the Second World War, 1939-45 Elena Hernández-Sandoica and Enrique Moradiello; 11. Portuguese neutrality in the Second World War Fernando Rosas; 12. Irish neutrality in the Second World War Eunan O'Halpin; 13. Swedish neutrality during the Second World War: tactical success or moral compromise? Paul A. Levine; 14. Switzerland: a neutral of distinction? Neville Wylie; Appendix; Index.
