The Second World War Essays in Military and Political History

Essays af en række officerer, historikere, m.fl., som bl.a. på baggrund af nyligt deklassificeret officielt materiale har taget en række af 2. Verdenskrig's forhold og begivenheder op til fornyet vurdering. Fra indholdet: Philip M. Taylor: If war should come; preparing til fifth arm for total war, 1935-1939. Patric Salmon: British plans for economic warfare against Germany, 1937-1939. The problem of the Swedish Iron Ore. Mark M. Lowenthal: Roosevelt and the coming of war; the search for United States Policy, 1937-1942. P.M. Baldwin: Clausewitz in Nazi Germany. Gerhard Hirschfeld: Collaboration and Attentism in the Netherlands, 1940-1941. A.J. Trythall: The downfall of Leslie Hore-Belisha. David G. Haglund: George C. Marshall and the question of military aid to England, maj-juni 1940. E.F. Gueritz: Nelson's blood: attitudes and actions of the Royal Navy, 1939-1945. B.B. Schofield:The defeat of the u-boats during World War II. Ronald Lewin: A signal-intelligence war. Mark Wheeler: The SOE phenomenon. Paul Kramer: Nelson Rockefeller and british security coordination. Ralph Bennett: Ultra and some command decisions. Michael R.D. Foot: Was SOE any good? Graham Ross: Foreing Office attitudes to the Soviet Union, 1941-1945. Alan Foster: The Times and appeasement: the second phase. Joe Daniel Langer: The Harriman-Beaverbrook mission and the debate over unconditional aid for the Soviet Union, 1941. Hugh De Santis: In search of Yoguslavia: Anglo-American policy and policy-making, 1943-1945. Gerald Kirwin: Waiting for retaliation - a study in Nazi propaganda behaviour and german civile morale. Frank King: Allied negotiations and the disemberment of Germany. Milan Hauner: One man against the Empire: the Faqir of Ipi and the British in Central Asia on the eve of and during the second World War.