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Cover -- The Big Three Allies and the European Resistance: Intelligence, Politics, and the Origins of the Cold War, 1939-1945 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Maps -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1: Resistance and Diplomacy in Occupied Europe: September 1939-July 1940 -- Generals Without an Army: The Comintern on the Eve of the War -- 'We have gotten smarter!': Stalin and the War -- British Experiments in Guerrilla Warfare -- Polish Agenda -- The Special Operations Executive -- 2: The Special Operations Executive at War: July 1940-June 1941 -- 'If German resistance did not exist, it was necessary to invent it' -- Polish and Czechoslovak Entanglements -- SOE and the Governments-in-Exilein London -- A Hotbed of Troubles: The Balkans on the Verge of War -- The German Invasion of the Balkans -- 3: The Communists Enter the Scene: June 1941-November 1941 -- The Comintern and the European Communists after June 1941 -- The Reorientation of British Policy -- Central Europe between the West and the East -- The Balkans in Flames -- The Outbreak of Civil War in Yugoslavia and the First Anglo-Soviet Skirmishes -- PART II -- 4: Uncertain Times: December 1941-December 1942 -- The Foreign Office-SOE Agreement -- The Soviets Move into the Yugoslav Morass -- SOE on the Slippery Slope in Greece -- A "Hudson for Greece": SOE Middle East Full Steam Ahead -- The Americans Join in: The Office of Strategic Services -- 5: The Militarization of British Policy and the Beginning of the US Challenge in the Mediterranean: January-December 1943 -- The Communist Resistance in the Balkans -- SOE's 'Fighting Greece' -- Tito Emerges -- Showdown in the Balkans -- 6: The Communist Movement on the Offensive: January-December 1943 -- Polish and Czechoslovak Dilemmas -- Stalin's Move on Poland -- The Disbandment of the Comintern -- The Balkan Powder Keg.

Churchill's Fateful Decision -- PART III -- 7: Civil War and Liberation in the Balkans 1944-1945 -- Greece and Albania in the Civil War -- Out in the Cold: Churchill and Yugoslavia in 1944 -- EAM's Bid for Power in Greece -- The Soviets Weigh In -- Stalin and Tito in 1944 -- Endgame in the Balkans -- 8: Central and Eastern Europe between Liberation and Soviet Occupation: 1944-1945 -- Takeovers -- The Polish Resistance Braces for the Red Army -- Setting the Scene for the Takeover -- Towards Disaster -- The Warsaw Uprising -- 9: The Liberation of Western Europe: 1944-1945 -- The Italian Resistance -- The French Partisan Movement and the Invasion of France -- The OSS-SOE Competition over the Italian Resistance in the Summer of 1944 -- The Agreement between AFHQ and the CLNAI -- The Liberation of North Italy -- 10: Conclusion -- Main Bibliography -- Special Operations Executive and British Policy -- US Office of Strategic Services and US Policy -- Comintern and Soviet Union -- European Resistance -- Inter-AlliesRelations -- Albania -- Austria -- Belgium -- Bulgaria -- Czechoslovakia -- Denmark -- France -- Germany -- Greece -- Hungary -- Italy -- Netherlands -- Norway -- Poland -- Romania -- Yugoslavia -- Index.

The first comparative and pan-European study of the Big Three's involvement in Resistance movements across wartime Europe. From Yugoslavia to Poland and from Greece to France and Italy, the book vividly depicts and sharply analyses how this proxy war shaped the history of the post-war settlement.