Titlebook: British Policy in South East Europe in the Second World War; Elisabeth Barker Book 1976 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publis

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The Eve of War threat to Poland, which might destroy the European power balance, and on the Italian threat in the Mediterranean against the sea route to the Middle East and India. South-East Europe was a shadowy no-man’s-land lying between the German thrust in the east and the Italian thrust in the south.

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Compatriot

The British, the Balkan Communists and Macedoniathe Communist parties involved and of their relations with one another. Although in Greece they had contacts with Communists as early as 1941, in Yugoslavia and Albania until 1943 they were almost totally ignorant of the leaders, and even after that of the tensions inside the Communist parties or between the party leaders and Moscow.

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Heterodoxy

Status Quo der Markenforschung,British policy towards Yugoslavia between 1939 and 1941 was plagued by three problems: geography, or the impossibility of giving military help to Yugoslavia without controlling either the Adriatic or Salonika; the Serb-Croat division; and uncertainty over Prince Paul. All had grave consequences.