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BOOK REVIEWS The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War. Edited by John Hiden and Thomas Lane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. xiii, 177 pp. $49.95. This slim volume is the fruit of a conference held at the Univer- sity of Bradford to mark the passing of 50 years since the outbreak of World War II. It contains papers presented by British, German, Lithuanian and Polish historians on the diplomatic history of the Baltic region in the period between the 1938 Munich Conference and the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941. John Hiden's brief but comprehensive survey of regionae security issues introduces various specialized studies by other authors. Several essays focus on the military, economic and political interests of the great powers in the Baltic. Mieczyslaw Nurek's paper studies the British government's shifting perceptions of Baltic affairs in the months before the.war; Thomas Lane examines Stalin's 1939 seizure of eastern Poland as a factor in Anglo-Soviet relations. Rolf Ahmann analyzes Nazi German policy toward Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; and Patrick Salmon assesses the complex role played by Finland in London's relations with Moscow before and during the Winter War. Other contributions explore the
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Published: Jan 1, 1993
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