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.
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
