Northern European Overture to War, 1939–1941

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Copyright

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Contents

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List of Illustrations

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List of Contributors

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Introduction

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PART I: THE GREAT POWERS AND THEIR APPROACHES TO THE REGION

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Containment and Cold War before the Nuclear Age: The Phoney War as Allied Strategy According to Liddell Hart

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Responding with Kindness or in Kind? On Conceptions of War and the Democracies’ Responses to Military Threats

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The Only British Advantage: Sea Power and Strategy, September 1939–June 1940

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The Soviet Policy towards the Baltic States in 1939–41

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Soviet Naval Perceptions of the Baltic Sea, 1938–41

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The Long and Winding Road to Weserübung

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Slipping into the War: German Naval Strategy between 1920 and 1940

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PART II: THE FOURTH PARTITION OF POLAND-LITHUANIA AND OTHER EFFECTS OF THE MOLOTOV-RIBBENTROP PACT

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The Lithuanian Reaction to the Loss of Klaipeda and the Combined Gift of Soviet “Security Assistance” and Vilnius

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Polish Perceptions of the Strategic Situation on the Eve of the Second World War

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Government and Public Reaction in Estonia to Soviet Pressure and the Events of September–December 1939

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Responses During the First Months of the Second World War: The Latvian Government, Army, Society and the Finnish Winter War

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PART III: SCANDINAVIA AND WESERÜBUNG

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Norway and the Withering League of Nations

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A German Menace to Norway: The Evolution of Threat Perceptions and Strategy between the Wars

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The Strategic Considerations and Actions of the Danish Commanding Admiral in the Years before the German Occupation in 1940

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The Armoured Commerce Raider: The Concept that Guided German Naval Lobbying for Control of Norway

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Unternehmen Weserübung April 1940: The German and Allied Strategy and Operational Approaches in Northern Europe 1939–40

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British Operational Responses to German Control of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–June 1941

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The Two Norways, 1940–41

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PART IV: THE FINAL MONTHS OF SOVIET GEOSTRATEGIC PREPARATIONS

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Soviet Military Preparations in Estonia during the Year before Barbarossa

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Swedish Responses to Soviet Moves East of the Baltic Sea: The Baltic States in Swedish Military Planning, 1939–41

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PART V: THE HISTORIOGRAPHY

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Weserübung in German and Norwegian Historiography

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Conspiracy, Guilt and Rationality: The Memory and History of the German Military Occupation of Denmark on 9 April 1940

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Problems of Baltic Historiography, 1939–41

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Index of Names

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