Contributor
Clemmesen, Michael Hesselholt, 1944-
ImprintLeiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Descriptionxvi, 520 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Note:Part I. The Great Powers and Their Approaches to the Region -- 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 Aselius -- The Long and Winding Road to Weserubung / Michael Epkenhans -- Slipping into the War : German Naval Strategy between 1920 and 1940 / Jorg Hillmann -- Part II. The Fourth Partition of Poland-Lithuania and Other Effects of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact -- The Lithuanian Reaction to the Loss of Klaipeda and the Combined Gift of Soviet "Security Assistance" and Vilnius / Ceslovas Laurinavicius -- Polish Perceptions of the Strategic Situation on the Eve of the Second World War / Slawomir Debski -- Government and Public Reaction in Estonia to Soviet Pressure and the Events of September-December 1939 / Magnus Ilmjarv -- Responses During the First Months of the Second World War : The Latvian Government, Army, Society and the Finnish Winter War / Valters Scerbinskis -- Part III. Scandinavia and Weserubung -- 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 Weserubung April 1940 : The German and Allied Strategy and Operational Approaches in Northern Europe, 1939-40 / Werner Rahn with Milan Vego --
Note: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 -- Part IV. The Final Months of Soviet Geostrategic Preparations -- Soviet Military Preparations in Estonia during the Year before Barbarossa / Toomas Hiio -- Swedish Responses to Soviet Moves East of the Baltic Sea : The Baltic States in Swedish Military Planning, 1939-41 / Lars Ericson Wolke -- Part V. The Historiography -- Weserubung 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
