Northern European overture to war, 1939-1941 : : from Memel to Barbarossa / / edited by Michael H. Clemmesen, Marcus S. Faulkner.

• Superior document: History of warfare, 87
• TeilnehmendeR: Clemmesen, Michael Hesselholt, 1944-; Faulkner, Marcus.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: History of warfare ; v. 87.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

While the German invasion of Poland in September 1939 was a pivotal moment in European history and precipitated the outbreak of the Second World War western historiography has largely neglected Northern Europe. Two questions dominated the course of events, the Anglo-German contest for control of the...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Michael H. Clemmesen and Marcus S. Faulkner
• Introduction / Michael H. Clemmesen and Marcus S. Faulkner
• Containment and Cold War before the Nuclear Age: The Phoney War as Allied Strategy According to Liddell Hart / Azar Gat
• Responding with Kindness or in Kind? On Conceptions of War and the Democracies’ Responses to Military Threats / Jeppe Plenge Trautner
• The Only British Advantage: Sea Power and Strategy, September 1939–June 1940 / Andrew Lambert
• The Soviet Policy towards the Baltic States in 1939–41 / Boris Vadimovich Sokolov
• Soviet Naval Perceptions of the Baltic Sea, 1938–41 / Gunnar Åselius
• The Long and Winding Road to Weserübung / Michael Epkenhans
• Slipping into the War: German Naval Strategy between 1920 and 1940 / Jörg Hillmann
• The Lithuanian Reaction to the Loss of Klaipėda and the Combined Gift of Soviet “Security Assistance” and Vilnius / Česlovas Laurinavičius
• Polish Perceptions of the Strategic Situation on the Eve of the Second World War / Sławomir Dębski
• Government and Public Reaction in Estonia to Soviet Pressure and the Events of September–December 1939 / Magnus Ilmjärv
• Responses During the First Months of the Second World War: The Latvian Government, Army, Society and the Finnish Winter War / Valters Ščerbinskis
• Norway and the Withering League of Nations / Karl Erik Haug
• A German Menace to Norway: The Evolution of Threat Perceptions and Strategy between the Wars / Tom Kristiansen
• The Strategic Considerations and Actions of the Danish Commanding Admiral in the Years before the German Occupation in 1940 / Hans Christian Bjerg
• The Armoured Commerce Raider: The Concept that Guided German Naval Lobbying for Control of Norway / Michael H. Clemmesen
• Unternehmen Weserübung April 1940: The German and Allied Strategy and Operational Approaches in Northern Europe 1939–40 / Werner Rahn and Milan Vego
• British Operational Responses to German Control of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–June 1941 / Marcus S. Faulkner
• The Two Norways, 1940–41 / Ole Kristian Grimnes
• Soviet Military Preparations in Estonia during the Year beforeLBarbarossa / Toomas Hiio
• Swedish Responses to Soviet Moves East of the Baltic Sea: The Baltic States in Swedish Military Planning, 1939–41 / Lars Ericson Wolke
• Weserübung in German and Norwegian Historiography / Rolf Hobson
• Conspiracy, Guilt and Rationality: The Memory and History of the German Military Occupation of Denmark on 9 April 1940 / Palle Roslyng-Jensen
• Problems of Baltic Historiography, 1939–41 / Alfred Erich Senn
• Index of Names / Michael H. Clemmesen and Marcus S. Faulkner.