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040			_cHIGH SCHOOL LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER
050			_aD741 _b.P54 2024
100			_aPiffer, Tommaso _eauthor _955614
245			_aThe big three allies and the European resistance: _bIntelligence, Politics, and the Origins if the Cold War, 1939-1945/ _cTommaso Piffer
260			_aOxford, United Kingdom: _bOxford University Press, _cc2024
300			_aix, 275 pages: _b7 maps; _c25 cm
500			_aIncludes index
504			_aBibliography: pages 251-268
520			_aWhile the Big Three and their continental Allies fought against Nazi Germany for the mastery of Europe, another war was under way on the continent: the war to shape the political landscape of post-war Europe. It often found the British, the Americans, the Soviets, and the partisan movements on opposite sides of the barricades. In the Balkans, the anti-Nazi war overlapped with political and ethnic conflicts, engulfing the region in bloody civil wars. In Central and Eastern Europe, partisan movements engaged the Germans without losing sight of the danger posed by the arrival of the Red Army. In France and in Italy, the adoption of the slogans of national liberation provided the communist parties with a formidable democratic legitimacy, which established them as key players in the political lives of their countries. The British and the Americans did not stand by and watch idly. To stir up, support, control, and direct the resistance groups, London created the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and Washington the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Agents were sent into occupied Europe to liaise directly with the guerrilla groups: many of them never came back. Through the Comintern, Moscow carefully coordinated the actions of the European communist parties with the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, which was acting for the first time as a key player in the arena of international relations. The forests and the mountains where the partisans were fighting the Germans soon became a major part of the proxy war that the three Allies waged to shift the geopolitical balance in their favour. Looking for the first time at the three Allies together and spanning Europe from Yugoslavia to Poland, from Greece to France and Italy, this book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xUnderground movements _zEurope _955615
650			_aProxy war _955616
651			_aGreat Britain _xForeign relations _y1936-1945 _955617
651			_aSoviet Union _xForeign relations _y1917-1945 _955618
651			_aUnited States _xForeign relations _y1933-1945 _955619
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