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Operation Pike : Britain versus the Soviet Union, 1939-1941

Title: Operation Pike : Britain versus the Soviet Union, 1939-1941 / Patrick R. Osborn.
Author: Osborn, Patrick R., 1966-
Publication: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

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Description

xxxvi, 274 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Contributions in military studies, 0883-6884 ; no. 190

Uniform Title

Contributions in military studies ; no. 190.

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Contents

Prologue: The Advent of the Nazi-Soviet and Turco-Allied Alliances -- 1. A little too cordial towards the other marauder: Poland, Finland, and the Nazi-Soviet Combination, September-November 1939 -- 2. The situation is complicated by Stalin's latest performance: The Soviet Union Attacks Finland, December 1939 -- 3. If possible destroy the Soviet Union: The Allies Search for a Weaker Enemy, January 1940 -- 4. A more or less definite event: Finland, the Caucasus, and the Katyn Forest Massacre, February-March 1940 -- 5. Baku is the Achilles-heel of both Russia and Germany: The Failure to Aid Finland and the Continuing Debate, March 1940 -- 6. Operation Pike: The British Plan to Attack the Russian Oil Industry -- 7. At any time we could cause chaos in Russia: Hitler's Blitzkrieg Folis the Allies and Relieves the Soviet, April-Mary 1940 -- 8. Before long we may find the Soviet Union cooperating with Germany: The Nazis Attempt to Turn the Soviets against the Allies, June-December 1940 --
9. It would be absurd, at this stage of the war, if we were to have such scruples: Operation Barbarossa and New British Plans to Destroy the Russian Oil Industry -- British Archival Sources.

ISBN

0313313687 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99045565

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