Honoured Partners: The British Relationship with Governments-in-exile During the Second World War

In the tumultuous summer of 1940 Britain agreed to support defeated European nations to continue their war from exile. This hurried and unprecedented policy decision created an alliance of eight governments-in-exile, of which six were ultimately restored to power. The Anglo-exile relationship added considerably to British strength and prestige during the war and catalysed increased European unity afterwards. While limited scholarship has examined some individual government-in-exile experiences, no study has yet considered the British perspective of the Anglo-exile relationship, nor analysed ho... Mehr ...