"...indispensable reading." American Historical Review

• List of maps; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Preface. A test case of collective security; Introduction. The nature of the problem; Part I. Background of the Munich Crisis: 1. The shaky foundations of collective security: Moscow, Paris, London; 2. Soviet-Romanian relations I: 1934–8; 3. Soviet-Romanian relations II: Summer 1938; Part II. Foreground: Climax of the Crisis: 4. East awaiting West; 5. The Red Army mobilises; 6. Denouement; Part III. Conclusion: 7. What the Red Army actually did; 8. What the Red Army might feasibly have done; 9. Epilogue; 10. Assessment of Soviet intentions; Appendix 1. Pertinent paragraphs of the League of Nations Covenant; Appendix 2. Franco-Soviet and Czechoslovak pacts: excerpts; Selected source materials and literature; Index.

"...indispensable reading." American Historical Review

• List of maps; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Preface. A test case of collective security; Introduction. The nature of the problem; Part I. Background of the Munich Crisis: 1. The shaky foundations of collective security: Moscow, Paris, London; 2. Soviet-Romanian relations I: 1934–8; 3. Soviet-Romanian relations II: Summer 1938; Part II. Foreground: Climax of the Crisis: 4. East awaiting West; 5. The Red Army mobilises; 6. Denouement; Part III. Conclusion: 7. What the Red Army actually did; 8. What the Red Army might feasibly have done; 9. Epilogue; 10. Assessment of Soviet intentions; Appendix 1. Pertinent paragraphs of the League of Nations Covenant; Appendix 2. Franco-Soviet and Czechoslovak pacts: excerpts; Selected source materials and literature; Index.

"...indispensable reading." American Historical Review

• List of maps; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Preface. A test case of collective security; Introduction. The nature of the problem; Part I. Background of the Munich Crisis: 1. The shaky foundations of collective security: Moscow, Paris, London; 2. Soviet-Romanian relations I: 1934–8; 3. Soviet-Romanian relations II: Summer 1938; Part II. Foreground: Climax of the Crisis: 4. East awaiting West; 5. The Red Army mobilises; 6. Denouement; Part III. Conclusion: 7. What the Red Army actually did; 8. What the Red Army might feasibly have done; 9. Epilogue; 10. Assessment of Soviet intentions; Appendix 1. Pertinent paragraphs of the League of Nations Covenant; Appendix 2. Franco-Soviet and Czechoslovak pacts: excerpts; Selected source materials and literature; Index.