British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War

In the years preceding World War II, opportunity, proximity of manufacture, and the logistics of supply all told in favour of the Third Reich. In these circumstances the British concluded that their only weapon against German ambitions in Romania were military subversive operations and an attempt to draw Romania out of her alliance with Germany.

Introduction
Selective Biographical Roster
1. Mission Accomplished: The Coup of 23 August 1944
2. Setting the Scene: Problems of Cohesion, 1918-1938
3. The Drift into Germany's Orbit: Romania, 1938-1941
4. The Prelude to Hostilities: Projecting Britain in Romania
5. Challenging German Ambitions: Clandestine British Military Operations in Romania, 1939-1941
6. Clandestine British Operations in Romania, 1942-1943
7. The 'Autonomous' Mission
8. MI6 and Romania, 1940-1945
9. The Eradication of Opposition to Communist Rule
10. Condemned But Not Forgotten: The Fate of Pro-British Activists in Romania, 1945-1964
11. Conclusion

Dennis Deletant is Visiting Ion Ra?iu Professor of Romanian Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, USA. He is also Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies at University College, London, where he taught in the School of Slavonic and East European Studies between 1969 and 2011.