Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919 -1939: Grand Strategy and Failure (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History) Review

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(More customer reviews)Stoker's work on inter-war Baltic Navies, and their relationship with the great powers is not only a first in English, but also very good. He provides a great deal of information on Polish, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish, efforts to produce naval power, at least capable of fending off the Soviets in the 1920s-30s. This book also covers the machinations of British and French arms dealers, who often pushed substandard, shoddy, or just plain peculiar weapons into the Baltic market. Based on research in many countries, this would be an excellent addition on the shelf of a naval, diplomatic, military, or Baltic historian.

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The strategy of the British and French prior to World War II was to preserve the status quo after the disaster of World War I. Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.This is an in-depth scholarly study of a subject that should appeal to students of international history, strategy, international relations and naval history in general.

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