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About this book
British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War is the first monograph to examine the activity throughout the entire war of SOE and MI6. It was generally believed in Britain's War Office, after Hitler's occupation of Austria in March 1938, that Germany would seek to impose its will on South-East Europe before turning its attention towards Western Europe. Given Romania's geographical position, there was little Britain could offer her. The brutal fact of British-Romanian relations was that Germany was inconveniently in the way: opportunity, proximity of manufacture and the logistics of supply all told in favour of the Third Reich. This held, of course, for military as well as economic matters. In these circumstances the British concluded that their only weapon against German ambitions in countries which fell into Hitler's orbit were military subversive operations and a concomitant attempt to draw Romania out of her alliance with Germany.
Reviews
“Professor Dennis Deletant’s recent efforts at clarifying Romania’s place in the history of the Second World War have therefore been invaluable not only for Romanian scholarship, but for wider European historiography. … Deletant’s latest book is yet another much-needed and useful addition to the history of Romania and of East-Central Europe. … Those invested in the study of history can hope that this book will rekindle scholarly interest in the evolution of this part of Europe.” (Vlad Onaciu, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, September, 2016)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dennis Deletant is Visiting Ion Ra?iu Professor of Romanian Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, USA. He is also Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies at University College, London, where he taught in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies between 1969 and 2011.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War
Authors: Dennis Deletant
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-57452-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57451-0Published: 06 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-55509-3Published: 11 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57452-7Published: 08 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 257
Topics: History of Military, History of World War II and the Holocaust, European History, Modern History