Eclipse of Europe
Brian Bond, 3 June 1982
End of the Affair: The Collapse of the Anglo-French Alliance 1939-40
by Eleanor Gates.
Allen and Unwin, 630 pp., £15, February 1982,0 04 940063 0 Show More
by Eleanor Gates.
Allen and Unwin, 630 pp., £15, February 1982,
The Strategy of Phoney War: Britain, Sweden and the Iron Ore Question 1939-1940
by Thomas Munch-Petersen.
Militärhistoriska Forlaget, 296 pp., £8, October 1981,91 85266 17 5 Show More
by Thomas Munch-Petersen.
Militärhistoriska Forlaget, 296 pp., £8, October 1981,
“... in Scandinavia – nominally to aid the Finns, but with designs on the Swedish ore fields. As Dr Munch-Petersen sardonically observes, though the economic position was unchanged, Swedish iron ore was suddenly viewed as decisive to the outcome of the war and was elevated from obscurity to a major issue for the War Cabinet. Military intervention in Scandinavia ... ”
