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Vital crossroads : Mediterranean origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940
Yazar:
Salerno, Reynolds M. (Reynolds Mathewson), 1966- author
ISBN:
9780801437724
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
xvi, 285 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Seri:
Cornell studies in security affairs
İçerik:
Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 -- Chapter 1 "The very midsummer of madness" 1935-37 10 -- Chapter 2 "The most formidable politico-military combination that has ever existed" November 1937-September 1938 40 -- Chapter 3 "The natural aspirations of the Italian people" October 1938-March 1939 73 -- Chapter 4 "Neither an acre of our territory nor a single one of our rights" March-August 1939 108 -- Chapter 5 "Keep the Allies guessing" September 1939-January 1940 143 -- Chapter 6 "A drama that will remake the map of the continent" December 1939-June 1940 178 -- Conclusion 213.
Özet:
Most international historians present the outbreak of World War II as the result of an irreconcilable conflict between Great Britain and Germany. This ubiquitous Anglo-German perspective fails to recognize complex causes and repercussions of international events, misappropriates historical responsibilities, and overlooks many global and imperial factors of the war's origins. Reynolds M. Salerno shows that the situation in the Mediterranean played a decisive role in the European drama of the late 1930s and profoundly influenced the manner in which the Second World War unfolded. Vital Crossroads is the result of the author's remarkable access to and extensive research in twenty-eight archives in five different countries. Concentrating on the period from the Mediterranean crisis of 1935 to Italy's declaration of war in June 1940, Salerno demonstrates that the international politics of pre-World War II Europe―particularly in the Mediterranean―can only be understood as the multilateral interaction of British, French, German, and Italian foreign and defense policies. Control of the Mediterranean, he asserts, was a central concern for the European powers in 1935–40, and a fundamental reason why Europe went to war and why the conflict unfolded as it did. As a result, France and Italy influenced and often determined the nature and direction of Allied and Axis policy to an extent disproportionate to their nations' military and economic strength.Salerno contends that the Allies' reluctance to take decisive action against Fascist Italy in 1939–40 contributed to the fall of France in 1940, Britain's desperate situation in 1940–41, and the post-war collapse of Britain as a world power. At a time when the Allied powers dreaded the ability of the German military to march across the European continent, they also feared that the Italian armed forces would strive to fulfill Mussolini's grand imperial ambitions in the Mediterranean.
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