"Diplomacy and Intelligence during the Second World War. Essays in Honour of F. H. Hinsley" Ed. by Richard Langhorne

Description

This collection of specially commissioned essays has been assembled as a tribute to Professor F. H. Hinsley, the foremost historian of British wartime intelligence. Strategic topics include the rapid collapse of France in 1940, Britain's response to it, and Russia's demand for a second front in Europe after she entered the war in 1941.

Major diplomatic problems are also considered: the management of the British Foreign Office during the period of appeasement, how to prevent Franco's Spain from joining the Axis, how to handle the situation in Yugoslavia following Tito's successes with the Partisans, and Roosevelt's doctrine of ‘unconditional surrender’. The book concludes with an assessment of the case against Germany over the invasion of Norway as it came before the Nuremberg Tribunal.



Contents

Part I:
1. Introduction Richard Langhorne;
2. F. H. Hinsley and a rational world order: an essay in bibliography Jonathan Steinberg;
3. F. H. Hinsley and the Cambridge moles: two patterns of intelligence recruitment Christopher Andrew;
Part II:
4. Strategy, arms and the collapse of France 1930–40 Bradford A. Lee;
5. Vansittart's administration of the Foreign Office in the 1930s Donald Boadle;
6. Italy's historians and the myth of Fascism Richard Bosworth;
Part III:
7. The political uses of military intelligence: evaluating the threat of a Jewish revolt against Britain during the Second World War Ronald Zweig;
8. The politics of asylum, Juan Negrín and the British Government in 1940 Denis Smyth;
9. Churchill and the British 'Decision' to fight on in 1940: right policy, wrong reasons David Reynolds;
10. Britain and the Russian entry into the war Sheila Lawlor;
11. Crowning the revolution: the British, King Peter and the path to Tito's cave Mark Wheeler;
12. Franklin Roosevelt and Unconditional Surrender A. E. Campbell;
Part IV:
13. Crimes against peace: the case of the invasion of Norway at the Nuremberg Trials Patrick Salmon;
Notes;
Bibliography of the writings of F. H. Hinsley;
Index.