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The Great Powers and Poland : from Versailles to Yalta
Uniform Title
Great Powers & Poland, 1919-1945.
Title
The Great Powers and Poland : from Versailles to Yalta / Jan Karski.
ISBN
9781442226647 (cloth : alk. paper)
1442226641 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781442226654 (electronic)
144222665X (electronic)
Edition
Anniversary edition.
Publication
Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Physical Description
xiv, 525 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes
Originally published as: The Great Powers & Poland, 1919-1945. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1985.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: the Great Powers and Poland between the two world wars (1919-1939). The Polish question during World War I
The Versailles Peace Conference, January 18-June 28, 1919
The Polish-Bolshevik War and the Curzon Line
Poland's eastern, northern, and southern boundaries: a profile of the reborn state
German-Soviet secret understanding, 1919-1932
Poland in the foreign policy of France, 1921-1932
Two-faced eastern neighbor, 1921-1932
The crucial year, 1933
The Polish-German declaration of nonagression, January 26, 1934
Franco-Polish relations, 1933-1936
The era of appeasement, 1937-1938
France and Poland after the remilitarization of the Rhineland
Hitler's demands on Poland, October 1938-March 1939
Soviet-Polish relations, 1934-1938
The meaning of the British and French guarantees, March-April 1939
Hitler's decision to isolate and crush Poland, April-August 1939
Nazi-Polish relations and the problem of Russia
Hitler-Beck diplomacy: a make-believe world
Anglo-French-Polish military and economic agreements: commitments in bad faith, 1939
War and peace in Soviet diplomacy, 1939
The Anglo-Polish Pact of Mutual Assistance: Poland misled, August 25, 1939
France, Great Britain, and Russia during the German-Polish Campaign.
Part II: the Great Powers and Poland during the Second World War (1939-1945). Poland after defeat
The Polish-Soviet Pact of July 30, 1941
The "four freedoms" and the Atlantic Charter
Soviet-Polish relations, July 30, 1941-April 25, 1943
The British-Soviet alliance of May 26, 1942: Chuchill's secret diplomacy
British and American attitudes toward Poland, 1941-1943
The Tehran Conference: Roosevelt's secret diplomacy, November 28-December 1, 1943
The entry of the Red Army into Poland, January 1944
Churchill's efforts to implement the Polish "formula"
Roosevelt and the Polish issue on the eve of the 1944 presidential election campaign
The Warsaw Uprising, August 1-October 2, 1944
The Poles entrapped in the homeland and abroad, August-October 1944
The aftermath of the October Conference in Moscow
Prologue to the Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference, February 4-11, 1945
The meaning of the Yalta agreement: diplomacy and semantics.
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