{"product_id":"2026200013667-secondhand-poland-between-east-and-west-soviet-and-german-diplomacy-toward-poland-1919-1933","title":"Poland Between East And West: Soviet And German Diplomacy Toward Poland 1919-1933","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the turbulent interwar decades, a reborn Poland found itself caught in a deadly geopolitical vice, squeezed between two antagonistic and expansionist powers whose secret machinations would ultimately seal its fate. Josef Korbel's Poland Between East and West: Soviet and German Diplomacy toward Poland 1919–1933 presents a meticulous and authoritative account of the diplomatic maneuvering conducted by the Soviet Union and Weimar Germany against Poland in the years following the First World War, illuminating how both powers coordinated — and competed — in their shared desire to erase the Polish state from the map of Europe.\n\nDrawing on a wealth of archival sources, Korbel — himself a distinguished Czech diplomat and father of Madeleine Albright — argues with compelling precision that Poland's strategic vulnerability was not merely geographic but was actively engineered through treaty arrangements, clandestine negotiations, and calculated deception. His analysis sheds critical light on the fragile architecture of the Versailles order, illustrating how its fault lines were ruthlessly exploited long before 1939. Written with both scholarly rigor and the authority of lived diplomatic experience, this landmark work raises an unsettling question: was Poland's destruction in the Second World War not an act of sudden aggression, but the culmination of a patient, twenty-year conspiracy?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203392184539,"sku":"2026200013667-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/932258ea-99ba-45a5-9994-a56a1642e692.png?v=1788148388","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013667-secondhand-poland-between-east-and-west-soviet-and-german-diplomacy-toward-poland-1919-1933","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}