Northern European Overture to War, 1939-1941: From Memel to Barbarossa

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix List of Contributors xi
Introduction ... 1

Michael H. Clemmesen and Marcus S. Faulkner
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 ... 9

Azar Gat Responding with Kindness or in Kind? On Conceptions of War and the Democracies' Responses to Military Threats ... 23

Jeppe Plenge Trautner The Only British Advantage: Sea Power and Strategy, September 1939-June 1940 ... 45

Andrew Lambert The Soviet Policy towards the Baltic States in 1939-41 ... 75

Boris Vadimovich Sokolov Soviet Naval Perceptions of the Baltic Sea, 1938-41 ... 91

Gunnar Aselius The Long and Winding Road to Weserubung ... 115

Michael Epkenhans Slipping into the War: German Naval Strategy between 1920 and 1940 ... 129

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 ... 167

Ceslovas Laurinavicius Polish Perceptions of the Strategic Situation on the Eve of the Second World War
... 189

Slawomir Debski Government and Public Reaction in Estonia to Soviet Pressure and the Events of September-December 1939
... 209

Magnus Ilmjarv Responses During the First Months of the Second World War: The Latvian Government, Army, Society and the Finnish Winter War
... 229

Valters Scerbinskis
PART III: SCANDINAVIA AND WESERUBUNG Norway and the Withering League of Nations
... 249

Karl Erik Haug A German Menace to Norway: The Evolution of Threat Perceptions and Strategy between the Wars
... 271

Tom Kristiansen The Strategic Considerations and Actions of the Danish Commanding Admiral in the Years before the German Occupation in 1940
... 295

Hans Christian Bjerg The Armoured Commerce Raider: The Concept that Guided German Naval Lobbying for Control of Norway
... 307

Michael H. Clemmesen Unternehmen Weserubung April 1940: The German and Allied Strategy and Operational Approaches in Northern Europe 1939-40
... 331

Werner Rahn (in cooperation with Milan Vego) British Operational Responses to German Control of Denmark and Norway, April 1940-June 1941
... 361

Marcus S. Faulkner The Two Norways, 1940-41
... 383

Ole Kristian Grimnes
PART IV: THE FINAL MONTHS OF SOVIET GEOSTRATEGIC PREPARATIONS Soviet Military Preparations in Estonia during the Year before Barbarossa
... 405

Toomas Hiio Swedish Responses to Soviet Moves East of the Baltic Sea: The Baltic States in Swedish Military Planning, 1939-41
... 433

Lars Ericson Wolke
PART V: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY Weserubung in German and Norwegian Historiography
... 449

Rolf Hobson Conspiracy, Guilt and Rationality: The Memory and History of the German Military Occupation of Denmark on 9 April 1940
... 465

Palle Roslyng-Jensen Problems of Baltic Historiography, 1939-41
... 491

Alfred Erich Senn
Index of Names
... 511

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Michael H. Clemmesen is a retired army brigadier general.He was director of the strategy department at the Royal Danish Defence College and later established the Baltic Defence College in Tartu, Estonia. Currently he is a senior research fellow at the Danish Centre for Military History. Marcus Faulkner, Ph.D. (2009), King's College London, is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of War Studies. He is a contemporary international historian and currently focuses on the development of sea power in twentieth century.