1st Edition

The Brussels and North Atlantic Treaties, 1947-1949 Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume X

Edited By Tony Insall, Patrick Salmon Copyright 2015
536 Pages
by Routledge

536 Pages
by Routledge

This volume documents the drafting, negotiation and signature of the treaty that has been the cornerstone of European defence for the past sixty-five years: the North Atlantic Treaty signed in April 1949. The story begins at the end of 1947, when the British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, became convinced of the need to persuade the United States of America, which had emerged from the... Read more
Preface
Abbreviations for Printed Sources
Abbreviated Designations
List of Persons
Chapter Summaries
I: December 1947-June 1948
II: July 1948-December 1948
III: January-April 1949
Index

Biography

Tony Insall is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and Associate Editor of the Historians at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.

Patrick Salmon is Chief Historian at the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London.