Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART ONE: PARADISO 1934-38 -- 1 Inheritance and Context -- 2 Atatiirk's Gambit, 1934 -- 3 The Abyssinian Crisis, 1935 -- 4 Montreaux, 1936 -- 5 The Search for Accommodation, 1936-38 -- PART TWO: PURGATORIO 1938-39 -- 6 The Politics of Dependency -- 7 The Doldrums, 1938-39 -- 8 Paradox Postponed: the Joint Guarantee, May 1939 -- 9 The Military Convention, October 1939 -- 10 The Tripartite Treaty, October 1939 -- PART THREE: INFERNO 1939-40 -- 11 Point d'Armes, point de Turques, 1939-40 -- 12. Point d'Argent, point d'Armes, 1939-40 -- 13 The Problem With Germany: the Search for a Strategy, 1939-1940 -- 14 Dilemmas in Operational Planning -- 15 Salvaging the Treaty, 1939-40 -- 16 The Debacle, 1940 -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- Y.