Britain, France, and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919-39: Grand Strategy and Failure
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by Donald J., Jr. Stoker
Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919-1939: Grand Strategy and Failure FROM THE PUBLISHER At the end of the First World War, France and Great Britain established a Cordon Sanitain in eastern Europe to further their own security interests. With this backdrop, Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland, and the three Baltic state of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
SYNOPSIS Naval arms trade policies are considered by some to be a part of naval diplomacy that aims to build coalitions. Stoker (strategy and policy, US Naval War College) examines British and French efforts to build a relationship with Poland through arms trade between the two World Wars, arguing that it was a failed effort to create a cordon sanitaire around Germany. These efforts also marked a failure to achieve goals of securing greater economic influence in the Baltic. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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