The ill-made alliance : Anglo-Turkish relations, 1934-1940 / Brock Millman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millman, Brock, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations.

Great Britain--Relations--Turkey.

Great Britain.

Turkey--Relations--Great Britain.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (531 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1939, faced with the German invasion of Czechoslovakia and a growing Italian threat in the Balkans, Turkey and Britain (and later France) signed an alliance in which Turkey linked itself politically and militarily with Britain and France in exchange for financial assistance for its rearmament program. Despite the agreement, however, when the war came to the Mediterranean, Turkey did not become involved. Presenting a new interpretation of why the alliance failed, Brock Millman explores Anglo-Turkish relations leading up to the alliance of 1939, taking into account the broader economic, military, and strategic issues.While previous accounts suggest that Turkey entered into the alliance reluctantly, Millman contends that it not only wanted an alliance but sought as close a relationship as Britain would concede in the prewar years. He attributes the failure of the alliance mainly to Britain's lack of support, namely its inability to fit Turkey into its strategy in the Mediterranean, its failure to produce a coherent operational plan that could encompass Turkish military co-operation, and its unwillingness to provide Turkey with timely and much-needed financial, material, and industrial assistance.Divided into three parts, The Ill-Made Alliance examines the roots and course of the Anglo-Turkish rapprochement in the years 1934-38; the economic, military, and politic factors in 1938-39 that inhibited development of the emerging alliance to the point where it might have been fully functional; and the collapse of the alliance in 1939-40.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Paradiso

Inheritance and Context

Atatürk's Gambit, 1934

The Abyssinian Crisis, 1935

Montreaux, 1936

The Search for Accommodation, 1936-38

Purgatorio

The Politics of Dependency

The Doldrums, 1938-39

Paradox Postponed: The Joint Guarantee, May 1939

The Military Convention, October 1939

The Tripartite Treaty, October 1939

Inferno

Point d'Armes, Point de Turques, 1939-40

Point d'Argent, Point d'Armes

The Problem with Germany: The Search for a Strategy, 1939-40

Dilemmas in Operational Planning

Salvaging the Treaty, 1939-40

The Debacle, 1940

Conclusion

Appendices

Turkish Weapons Demands: Dec 1937-Jan 1940

Turkish Armaments: Nonallied Orders

Turkish Weapons Demands: Deliveries

Turkish Weapons Demands: Requested/Pledged/Delivered by June 1940

Adjusted Turkish Requirements of Raw Materials

Training Assistance Desired (Outside Turkey)

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [499]-512) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85444-5

9786612854446

0-7735-6654-6

OCLC:

144142810