In the shadow of Munich
| Titel: | In the shadow of Munich : British policy towards Czechoslovakia from the endorsement to the renunciation of the Munich agreement (1938 - 1942) / Vít Smetana |
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| Ausgabe: | 1. ed. |
| Veröffentlicht: | Prague : Karolinum, 2008 |
| Umfang: | 358 S. : Ill. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9788024613734 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Aimes and methodology
- Bibliographical essay
- Structure of the book
- British foreign policy and Czechoslovakia before Munich 1938 (historical introduction)
- British strategies in the inter-war period
- The "Czechoslovak year": 1938
- Britain and the crumbling of Czechoslovakia (30 September 1938-15 March 1939)
- The implementation of Munich and its immediate impact upon British politics
- The question of the Munich guarantee
- Britain's policy towards Central Europe between Munich and 15 March 1939
- Towards the March ides
- Towards the outbreak of war (15 march-3 September 1939)
- The immediate repercussions of the March ides in British politics
- British international efforts between 15 March and the outbreak of the war
- Military and econimc implciations of the German subjugation of Czechoslovakia
- "The Czech gold scandal"
- Britain and independent Slovakia
- Britain's de facto recognition of German annexation and the question of the Czechoslovak balances (a study of interdependence of foreign policy and economic interests)
- The problem of the Czechoslovak Legation in London
- Conclusion
- British attitudes towards the development of Czechoslovak political representation in exile (October 1938-July 1940)
- Britain's assistance to refugees from Czechoslovakia, 1938-1939
- Britain's attitudes to the formation of Czechoslovak political represenation abroad before the outbreak of war
- Czechoslovakia and the British war aims
- The recognition of the Czechoslovak National Committee
- Towards the Provisional Government
- Conclusion
- The other life of Munich and the "unbearable lightness" of provisional status (July 1940-July 1941)
- The legacy of Munich and the battles for history
- Establishing the governing structures in exile
- The thorny way to full recognition - stage 1
- The thorny way to full recognition - state 2
- Conclusion
- Planning for the future while looking to the past (1940-1942)
- The Polish-Czechoslovak Confederation in British, Polish and Czechoslovak plans
- The question of hte Czechoslovak forntiers and the origins of "permanent solution" of the Sudeten German issue
- Conclusion
- General conclusions
- Bibliography
- Biographical notes
- Index
