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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2003.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wylie, Neville, |d 1966- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Britain, Switzerland, and the Second World War / |c Neville Wylie. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Britain, Switzerland, and the 2nd World War |
| 260 | |a Oxford ; |a New York : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2003. | ||
| 300 | |a xv, 394 p. : |b maps ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-382) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |g Pt. I. |t British Policy Towards Switzerland During the Second World War -- |g 1. |t The Making of British Policy -- |g 2. |t The Reception of British Policy in Switzerland -- |g 3. |t The Evolution of British Policy -- |g Pt. II. |t The Core Features of Anglo-Swiss Relations, 1939-1945 -- |g 4. |t British Economic Warfare and Switzerland -- |g 5. |t Switzerland and British Strategy: Toluol, Trains, and Transit Rights -- |g 6. |t The View from the Central Blue. The Violation of Swiss Neutrality by the Royal Air Force -- |g 7. |t Francs, Banks, and Gold: Britain and the Swiss Financial Market -- |g 8. |t Cloaking the Dagger: British Covert Operations and Swiss Neutrality -- |g 9. |t Britain and Switzerland's 'Active' Neutrality. |
| 520 | 1 | |a "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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |z Great Britain |x Diplomatic history. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Foreign relations |y 1936-1945. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Foreign relations |z Switzerland. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Switzerland |x Foreign relations |z Great Britain. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Diplomatic history. | |
| 730 | 0 | |a University press scholarship online. |5 net | |
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