Neville Wylie was Junior Research Fellow and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at New Hall and at the Centre of International Studies in Cambridge. Since leaving Cambridge in 1998 he has held positions at the University of Glasgow, where he was acting director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies, and University College Dublin and has been a visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute for International Affairs in Geneva. He has published a number of articles in scholarly journals and is author of a forthcoming monograph on British policy towards Switzerland, 1939-1945.

• List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: victims or actors? European neutrals and non-belligerents, 1939–45 Neville Wylie; Part I. The 'Phoney War' Neutrals: 1. Denmark, September 1939–April 1940 Hans Kirchhoff; 2. Norway Patrick Salmon; 3. The Netherlands Bob Moore; 4. Belgium: fragile neutrality, solid neutralism Alain Colignon; Part II. The 'Wait and See' Neutrals: Map of South-East Europe and the Balkans, 1939–41; 5. 'Where one man, and only one man, led': Italy's path from non-alignment to non-belligerency to war, 1937–40 Brian R. Sullivan; 6. Treaty revision and doublespeak: Hungarian neutrality, 1939–41 Tibor Frank; 7. Romanian neutrality 1939–40 Maurice Pearton; 8. Bulgarian neutrality: domestic and international perspectives Vesselin Dimitrov; 9. Yugoslavia Dragoljub R. Živojinovič; Part III. The 'Long Haul' Neutrals: 10. Spain and the Second World War, 1939–45 Elena Hernández-Sandoica and Enrique Moradiello; 11. Portuguese neutrality in the Second World War Fernando Rosas; 12. Irish neutrality in the Second World War Eunan O'Halpin; 13. Swedish neutrality during the Second World War: tactical success or moral compromise? Paul A. Levine; 14. Switzerland: a neutral of distinction? Neville Wylie; Appendix; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'The attention properly given to historiography increases the book's value as a complement to mainline Second World War histories … Not only do these essays modify our understanding of neutrality, they also prompt us to rethink the Second World War itself.' The Times Literary Supplement

Neville Wylie was Junior Research Fellow and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at New Hall and at the Centre of International Studies in Cambridge. Since leaving Cambridge in 1998 he has held positions at the University of Glasgow, where he was acting director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies, and University College Dublin and has been a visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute for International Affairs in Geneva. He has published a number of articles in scholarly journals and is author of a forthcoming monograph on British policy towards Switzerland, 1939-1945.

• List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: victims or actors? European neutrals and non-belligerents, 1939–45 Neville Wylie; Part I. The 'Phoney War' Neutrals: 1. Denmark, September 1939–April 1940 Hans Kirchhoff; 2. Norway Patrick Salmon; 3. The Netherlands Bob Moore; 4. Belgium: fragile neutrality, solid neutralism Alain Colignon; Part II. The 'Wait and See' Neutrals: Map of South-East Europe and the Balkans, 1939–41; 5. 'Where one man, and only one man, led': Italy's path from non-alignment to non-belligerency to war, 1937–40 Brian R. Sullivan; 6. Treaty revision and doublespeak: Hungarian neutrality, 1939–41 Tibor Frank; 7. Romanian neutrality 1939–40 Maurice Pearton; 8. Bulgarian neutrality: domestic and international perspectives Vesselin Dimitrov; 9. Yugoslavia Dragoljub R. Živojinovič; Part III. The 'Long Haul' Neutrals: 10. Spain and the Second World War, 1939–45 Elena Hernández-Sandoica and Enrique Moradiello; 11. Portuguese neutrality in the Second World War Fernando Rosas; 12. Irish neutrality in the Second World War Eunan O'Halpin; 13. Swedish neutrality during the Second World War: tactical success or moral compromise? Paul A. Levine; 14. Switzerland: a neutral of distinction? Neville Wylie; Appendix; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'The attention properly given to historiography increases the book's value as a complement to mainline Second World War histories … Not only do these essays modify our understanding of neutrality, they also prompt us to rethink the Second World War itself.' The Times Literary Supplement

Neville Wylie was Junior Research Fellow and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at New Hall and at the Centre of International Studies in Cambridge. Since leaving Cambridge in 1998 he has held positions at the University of Glasgow, where he was acting director of the Scottish Centre for War Studies, and University College Dublin and has been a visiting lecturer at the Graduate Institute for International Affairs in Geneva. He has published a number of articles in scholarly journals and is author of a forthcoming monograph on British policy towards Switzerland, 1939-1945.

• List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: victims or actors? European neutrals and non-belligerents, 1939–45 Neville Wylie; Part I. The 'Phoney War' Neutrals: 1. Denmark, September 1939–April 1940 Hans Kirchhoff; 2. Norway Patrick Salmon; 3. The Netherlands Bob Moore; 4. Belgium: fragile neutrality, solid neutralism Alain Colignon; Part II. The 'Wait and See' Neutrals: Map of South-East Europe and the Balkans, 1939–41; 5. 'Where one man, and only one man, led': Italy's path from non-alignment to non-belligerency to war, 1937–40 Brian R. Sullivan; 6. Treaty revision and doublespeak: Hungarian neutrality, 1939–41 Tibor Frank; 7. Romanian neutrality 1939–40 Maurice Pearton; 8. Bulgarian neutrality: domestic and international perspectives Vesselin Dimitrov; 9. Yugoslavia Dragoljub R. Živojinovič; Part III. The 'Long Haul' Neutrals: 10. Spain and the Second World War, 1939–45 Elena Hernández-Sandoica and Enrique Moradiello; 11. Portuguese neutrality in the Second World War Fernando Rosas; 12. Irish neutrality in the Second World War Eunan O'Halpin; 13. Swedish neutrality during the Second World War: tactical success or moral compromise? Paul A. Levine; 14. Switzerland: a neutral of distinction? Neville Wylie; Appendix; Index.

Review of the hardback: 'The attention properly given to historiography increases the book's value as a complement to mainline Second World War histories … Not only do these essays modify our understanding of neutrality, they also prompt us to rethink the Second World War itself.' The Times Literary Supplement