The art of staying neutral : the Netherlands in the First World War, 1914-1918 / Maartje M. Abbenhuis.
Offers a comprehensive and insightful account of the history of the Netherlands and its neutrality in the First World War, taking into account domestic and international implications.
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Amsterdam University Press,
[2006]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the war knocked on our door, it did not step inside : the Netherlands and the Great War
- A nation too small to commit great stupidities : the Netherlands and neutrality
- A pack of lions : the Dutch armed forces
- Api Api : the mobilisation July-August 1914
- Calm amidst the raging waves : defending territorial neutrality
- Fugitives of war : refugees and internees
- Shifting sand and gravel : military and economic neutrality
- Somewhere between war and peace : the states of war and siege
- Ash-grey with neutrality : safeguarding neutrality in the state of siege
- The war for bread and guns : supply and the fate of a small nation
- No more war! : the furore over leave and demobilisation
- This dreary war : expressions of popular frustration
- All hell has broken loose : the year 1918
- Conclusion : between the devil and the deep blue sea : the paradox of neutrality.