By Michael Stenton

This booklet examines British makes an attempt to salary political battle within the international locations occupied by means of Germany in international struggle II. It describes the development of political struggle equipment in London, displaying the way it was once hampered by way of problems: Whitehall politics and deep doubts concerning the war's objective. The booklet then examines how political conflict operated as a semi-detached adjunct of international relations and the way it engaged with the advance of armed or another way energetic resistance in France, Denmark, Poland, and Yugoslavia. The e-book can also be a research of British political mind's eye in a interval while Britain perceived itself as a mostly self sustaining global energy. The adventure of near-defeat, despite the fact that, left the decision-makers with dilemmas approximately rhetoric and beliefs in addition to strategy.