Author:
Karski, Jan, 1914-2000.
Edition Statement:Anniversary edition.
ImprintLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
Descriptionxiv, 524 p. ; 24 cm
Note:Originally published as: The Great Powers & Poland, 1919-1945. Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1985.
Note: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 CampaignPart 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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
