British Policy Towards Poland, 1944-1956

• Main Author: Mason, Andrea (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Security, Conflict and Cooperation in the Contemporary World
• Subjects: Europe-History-1492-.; World War, 1939-1945.; World politics.; International relations.; History of Modern Europe.; History of World War II and the Holocaust.; Political History.; Foreign Policy.

This book examines the outcome of the British commitment to reconstitute a sovereign Polish state and establish a democratic Polish government after the Second World War. It analyses the wartime origins of Churchill's commitment to Poland, and assesses the reasons for the collapse of British ef...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Britain and the Polish Government-in-Exile, January 1944-June 1945
• Chapter 3: From Potsdam to the Moscow Council of Foreign Ministers, July-December 1945
• Chapter 4: The Electoral Bloc to the Polish Referendum, January-June 1946
• Chapter 5: From the Referendum to the Elections, June 1946 - January 1947
• Chapter 6: Mikołajczyk's Escape, January - November 1947
• Chapter 7: From High Cold War to Early Détente, 1948-1956
• Chapter 8: Conclusion.