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Poland and the Coming of the Second World War: The Diplomatic Papers of A.J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., United States Ambassador to Poland, 1937-1939
Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle; Philip V. Cannistraro; Edward D. Wynot, Jr.; Theodore P. Kovaleff; Charles Morley (foreword)
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Cloth hardcover, xvi + 358 pages, NOT ex-library. Age-spotted outer page edges; spotting and faint foxing on the front and rear endpapers. Pages are clean, bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Boards show rubbing to edges.… Aged and worn dust jacket with extensive edgewear and sunned spine; torn along the front flap. -- In the years that immediately preceded the beginning of the Second World War and during the initial phase of the conflict itself, Poland was to play a central role in the tense drama of international affairs. Uncertain diplomats speculated on the policies the beleaguered nation would likely adopt once the full pressure of Hitler's Germany had been felt in Warsaw, where an ambivalent government was seen to vacillate between allegiance to the Western democracies and an apparent disposition to enter into partnership with the Third Reich. Alarmed political observers in Europe and elsewhere expressed deep concern and grave misgiving over the ability of the Polish political system, economy, and social structure to withstand the tremendous stress of supporting a major war effort. The selection of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., as the ambassador of the United States to Poland signaled a significant increase in official American concern over the impending crisis. Although he was not a career diplomat, Biddle had been an extremely successful businessman, a leading personality in high social circles, and a close personal friend and political ally of the president. He served in Warsaw from the summer of 1937 until the outbreak of the war between Germany and Poland, when he accompanied the government on its flight into exile through Romania into France and finally to London.
