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Poland and the Coming of the Second World War: The Diplomatic Papers of A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., United States Ambassador to Poland, 1937-1939
Poland and the Coming of the Second World War: The Diplomatic Papers of A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., United States Ambassador to Poland, 1937-1939
Edited by Philip V. Cannistraro, Edward D. Wynot, Jr., and T
Ohio State University Press, 1976, 358 pp

Biddle's "Report," written in Paris after the fall of Poland, is a real find. It is admirably annotated by the editors, who have also appended 150 pages of letters to President Roosevelt and diplomatic dispatches written by Biddle when in Poland.

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