Poland's Place in Europe : : General Sikorski and the Origin of the Oder-Neisse Line, 1939-1943 / / Sarah Meiklejohn Terry.
The author explores a variety of questions related to General Sikorski's policies, such as his effort to maintain an independent Polish Arms' in the Soviet Union. Drawing on extensive British, American, and Polish archives, her work describes the defeat of a radical solution to the perenni...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (412 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Preface
- Note on Geographical Terms
- Part One. The Historical Setting
- I. Introduction
- II. The Burden of History
- Part Two. Program and Promise
- III. The Unlikely Iconoclast
- IV. Sikorski's Russian Gambit
- V. Toward a New Central Europe
- VI. The Eastern Boundary: Encounter with Necessity
- VII. Synthesis: The Precarious Balance
- Part Three. Agony and Aftermath
- VIII. Setting for Disaster
- IX. Retreat from Rapprochement
- X. Boundary Politics: East versus West
- XI. The Consequences of Failure
- Epilogue. Sikorski: Realist or Visionary?
- Bibliographical Essay
- Selected Bibliography
- Index