Table of Contents

List of maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The diplomats, the formation of the eastern alliance system and arms limitation, 1918–1935; 2. The military, the Rhineland and the eastern alliances, 1918–1936; 3. Blum and the quandaries of external economic policy: the Schacht voyage; 4. Blum and the military: the Franco-Polish arms; 5. Blum and the diplomats: the Franco-Petite Entente negotiations, I; 6. Blum and the diplomats: the Franco-Petite Entente negotiations, II; 7. The great eastern crises, 1938–1939, and the fall of France; Summary and epilogue: Léon Blum and Czechoslovakia in 1938; Bibliography; Index.

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A study of French policies in Central Europe from Versailles until the fall of France.