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Murray, W. - Small Nations under the Gun. Europe 1914–1940

Keywords:

Europe | first world war | small nations

ISFWWS-Keywords:

Neutral States | General | Politics | Legacy

Abstract:

In the fifth century B.C. the greatest strategic historian of war recorded a conversation between Athenian negotiators and those of the island city state of Melos. Quite simply on the great stage of world politics, the United States and its Western allies were not going to risk a global conflict over the fate of Poland. This contribution th…