Britain, Switzerland, and the Second World War /
"This is the first comprehensive study of British policy towards Switzerland during the Second World War. Switzerland occupied an ambiguous place in British belligerency. For most policy-makers, Switzerland epitomized the kind of political values that Britain claimed to uphold when it declared...
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| 语言: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| 总结: | "This is the first comprehensive study of British policy towards Switzerland during the Second World War. Switzerland occupied an ambiguous place in British belligerency. For most policy-makers, Switzerland epitomized the kind of political values that Britain claimed to uphold when it declared war on Nazi Germany in 1939. At the same time however, Switzerland's inexorable drift into the German orbit after mid-1940 inevitably prevented Britain from treating the Swiss with quite the same benevolence as had characterized relations between the two countries over the previous 150 years. This book investigates how the British government tried to resolve this problem and construct a policy that met its primary political and strategic needs, while maintaining cordial relations with as Churchill put it, the 'only decent neutral in the world.'"--BOOK JACKET. |
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| 实物描述: | xv, 394 p. : maps ; 23 cm. |
| 参考书目: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-382) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198206909 |