Publisher's Synopsis
This book examines one of the most controversial questions of World War II - British military and political strategy towards Central and Eastern Europe in the crucial year, 1944, which determined the fate of this vast region in the post-war world.;These papers, first given at a conference led by the historian, Sir William Deakin (who led the first British military mission parachuted to Yugoslavia), explore fresh ground and produce original evidence by bringing together historians from Britain and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and confronting them with active participants, or first-hand witnesses in British decision-making and action - or inaction.
