John Gilmour

Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin (eBook, ePUB)

The Swedish experience in the Second World War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the Second World War by covering the range of challenges, threats, issues, dilemmas, and changes faced and dealt with by Sweden during the conflict.Interest in Sweden's wartime experiences has increased due to its post-war profile as a neutral that both allowed German troops to transit through its territory and also carried on trading with the Nazi regime during the holocaust years. Many misconceptions and false impressions have arisen and persisted as a result of deliberate misinformation and concealment by all sides during that time. Readers of this book will gain a fresh, broad view of the period, personalities and problems from a Swedish orientation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748686667
• Artikelnr.: 56904346

Autorenporträt

John Gilmour teaches modern Scandinavian history and specialises in Scandinavia and the Second World War. From an initial research interest in the British wartime relationship with Sweden, he has broadened his scope to cover events in the occupied countries of Norway and Denmark; the German co-belligerent of Finland; and the committed neutral, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: 1 Shades of Neutrality? Political Challenges and Social Changes 1900-1939
2 Wartime Power and Personalities
3 Isolation, 1939-1941
4 Towards the Turning Point, July 1941-July 1943
5 Eastern Approaches and Western Reproaches: Finland's Continuation War and the Collapse of Germany, June 1941-May 1945
6 Trading with Germany and the Allies - Blackmail and Brinksmanship
Part Two: 7 Security, Subversion, Spies and Sabotage
8 The Battle for Sweden's Mind - Propaganda and Censorship
9 Race, Rejection, Reception, Rescue, and Redemption - Swedish Humanitarian Endeavours
10 Military Matters
11 The Front at Home - Beredskapstiden
12 Looking Back in Anger? The Assault on 'Small-State Realism'
Abbreviations and Glossary
Reference Sources and Bibliography
Index