The history of Anglo-Czechoslovak relations during the Second World War has generated much
controversy over the past sixty years. This book examines Britain's relationship with the
Czechoslovak émigrés based in London led by Edvard Benes from the Foreign Office's
perspective. Using a wide range of materials the author provides a rigorously post-Cold War
analysis of British decision-making and policy formation on the Czechoslovak question between
1938 and 1945. He gives detailed consideration to tripartite relations with the Polish
Government in exile the Soviet Union and the anti-fascist Sudeten German refugees in London
led by Wenzel Jaksch. He also examines the British Government's attempts to promote resistance
in Nazi-occupied Europe as well as the gradual evolution of proposals to remove the Sudeten
German minority forcibly from Czechoslovakia after the war.