Britain Germany And The Cold War

Author : R. Gerald Hughes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134127221

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Britain, Germany and the Cold War by R. Gerald Hughes Pdf

This well-researched book details the ambiguity in British policy towards Europe in the Cold War as it sought to pursue détente with the Soviet Union whilst upholding its commitments to its NATO allies. From the early 1950s, Britain pursued a dual policy of strengthening the West whilst seeking détente with the Soviet Union. British statesmen realized that only through compromise with Moscow over the German question could the elusive East-West be achieved. Against this, the West German hard line towards the East (endorsed by the United States) was seen by the British as perpetuating tension between the two blocs. This cast British policy onto an insoluble dilemma, as it was caught between its alliance obligations to the West German state and its search for compromise with the Soviet bloc. Charting Britain's attempts to reconcile this contradiction, this book argues that Britain successfully adapted to the new realities and made hitherto unknown contributions towards détente in the early 1960s, whilst drawing towards Western Europe and applying for membership of the EEC in 1961. Drawing on unpublished US and UK archives, Britain, Germany and the Cold War casts new light on the Cold War, the history of détente and the evolution of European integration. This book will appeal to students of Cold War history, British foreign policy, German politics, and international history.

Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cold War
ISBN : UOM:39015017750848

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Britain and the First Cold War by Anne Deighton Pdf

Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cold War
ISBN : UOM:39015017750848

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Britain and the First Cold War by Anne Deighton Pdf

Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 0198273320

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The Impossible Peace by Anne Deighton Pdf

Presenting a new interpretation of the British government's policy toward Germany from the period of Churchill and Eden to that of Attlee and Bevin, this study exploits recently released documents to illuminate the strategic maneuverings of West and East over Germany and the emergence of the Cold War.

Author : Stefan Berger,Norman Laporte
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1845456971

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Friendly Enemies by Stefan Berger,Norman Laporte Pdf

During the Cold War, Britain had an astonishing number of contacts and connections with one of the Soviet Bloc's most hard-line regimes: the German Democratic Republic. The left wing of the British Labour Party and the Trade Unions often had closer ties with communist East Germany than the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). There were strong connections between the East German and British churches, women's movements, and peace movements; influential conservative politicians and the Communist leadership in the GDR had working relationships; and lucrative contracts existed between business leaders in Britain and their counterparts in East Germany. Based on their extensive knowledge of the documentary sources, the authors provide the first comprehensive study of Anglo-East German relations in this surprisingly under-researched field. They examine the complex motivations underlying different political groups' engagement with the GDR, and offer new and interesting insights into British political culture during the Cold War.

Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349107568

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Britain and the Cold War by Anne Deighton Pdf

This collection challenges views of the Cold War as a purely bipolar affair, involving only the United States and the Soviet Union. It shows that Britain took a lead and continued to play an part in a drive to contain communism and that she tried to keep her own position as a great world power.

Author : Josef Becker,Franz Knipping
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110863918

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Great Britain, France, Italy and Germany in a Postwar World, 1945-1950 by Josef Becker,Franz Knipping Pdf

Author : William Glenn Gray
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807862483

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Germany's Cold War by William Glenn Gray Pdf

Using newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II. Unwilling to accept the division of their country, West German leaders regarded the German Democratic Republic (GDR) as an illegitimate upstart--a puppet of the occupying Soviet forces. Together with France, Britain, and the United States, West Germany applied political and financial pressure around the globe to ensure that the GDR remain unrecognized by all countries outside the communist camp. Proclamations of ideological solidarity and narrowly targeted bursts of aid gave the GDR momentary leverage in such diverse countries as Egypt, Iraq, Ghana, and Indonesia; yet West Germany's intimidation tactics, coupled with its vastly superior economic resources, blocked any decisive East German breakthrough. Gray argues that Bonn's isolation campaign was dropped not for want of success, but as a result of changes in West German priorities as the struggle against East Germany came to hamper efforts at reconciliation with Israel, Poland, and Yugoslavia--all countries of special relevance to Germany's recent past. Interest in a morally grounded diplomacy, together with the growing conviction that the GDR could no longer be ignored, led to the abandonment of Bonn's effective but outdated efforts to hinder worldwide recognition of the East German regime.

Author : S. Mawby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780333984222

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Containing Germany by S. Mawby Pdf

This book presents a radical reappraisal of British policy towards West German rearmament until the Federal Republic's incorporation into NATO and contains a series of major new theses on British attitudes towards European integration, Anglo-Soviet relations and the 'Special Relationship'. It places policy in the context of Anglo-German distrust, American demands for a German contribution and British fears of antagonising the Soviets. It clarifies numerous controversial issues by demonstrating British willingness to compromise with the Soviets over German unification, the British military's desire to reduce the continental commitment and Eden's enthusiasm for a European Army.

Author : Anne Deighton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0198278985

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The Impossible Peace by Anne Deighton Pdf

A new interpretation of the British government's policy towards Germany in the years immediately after 1945, and a reassessment of the part this policy played in the development of the Cold War.

Author : Nicolas Lewkowicz
Publisher : Ipoc Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9788895145273

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The German Question and the Origins of the Cold War by Nicolas Lewkowicz Pdf

The book analyses the role of the German Question in the origins of the Cold War. The work evaluates the transformation which occurred in Germany and the post-war international order due to the inter-Allied work on denazification. The author analyses the Rationalist aspects of superpower interaction, with particular emphasis on the legal and diplomatic framework which sustained not only the treatment of the German Question but also the general context of inter-Allied relations. The author also tackles the conflictual aspects of the treatment of the German Question by examining superpower interaction in relation to the enforcement of their structural interests. The main argument of the book is that due to the interaction between the elements of intervention and coexistence, the German Question constituted the most significant issue in the configuration of the post-war international order.

Author : Kori Schake
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781403919489

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The Berlin Wall Crisis by Kori Schake Pdf

This volume highlights the complex intra-alliance politics of what was seen as the likeliest flash point of conflict in the Cold War and demonstrates how strongly determinant were concerns about relationships with allies in the choices made by all the major governments. It recounts the evolution of policy during the 1958 and 1961 Berlin crises from the perspective of each government central to the crisis, one on the margins and the military headquarters responsible for crafting an agreed Western military campaign

Author : John Kent
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015033092332

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British Imperial Strategy and the Origins of the Cold War, 1944-49 by John Kent Pdf

Author : Tony Geraghty
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021017392

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Brixmis by Tony Geraghty Pdf

This text presents the secrets of how British intelligence officers working undercover as liaison officers in East Germany stole advanced Soviet equipment and penetrated top-secret training areas. For 40 years the men from all three armed services, the SAS and the Foreign Office conducted an intelligence war against the massive Soviet military strength.

Author : Andrew Sangster
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527558076

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Secret Services, 1918-1939 by Andrew Sangster Pdf

This book examines the nature of the secret services and the role of the secret police in Britain, Russia, and Germany during the interwar years. It traces the growth of the secret services and police in these countries, indicating how they differed in their development. The SIS (MI6), MI5 and Special Branch in England appeared more like a Gentleman’s Club from Eton and Oxbridge, especially when compared to the German Gestapo, SS-SD, and Abwehr in Germany, and the Cheka, GPU, NKVD and KGB in Stalinist Russia. The British were short of money and resources, while the Germans were interested in establishing their services, and the Soviet Union poured in money, but with the emphasis on internal repression. It was the emerging signals of another World War which defined the shapes of their secret services, which later had long-term consequences for the Cold War.