Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and the Rewriting of History

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In Between the Alps and a Hard Place, Professor Angelo M. Codevilla reveals how the true history of the Swiss in World War II has been buried beneath a modern campaign of moral blackmail that has accused Switzerland of secretly supporting Nazi Germany and sharing culpability for the Holocaust. Codevilla—who practiced real-life, hardball foreign policy as an intelligence adviser in the U.S. Senate—offers a primer on the realities of power politics, using the Swiss experience in World War II to illuminate the workings of the balance of power, military deterrence, economic leverage, and subversion.
But more, he exposes how current American leaders are ignoring the realities of international affairs by putting domestic politics and political payoffs ahead of the national interest.
In the context of World War II, Codevilla shows how tiny Switzerland successfully fended off an Axis war machine thirty times its strength and simultaneously made itself available as a lifeboat to Jewish and other ethnic refugees. The Swiss recognized that military power is the foundation of international relations, and they deterred a Nazi invasion by keeping their country more valuable to the Germans as a free nation than as a conquered one.
Codevilla documents how the anti-Swiss campaign offered no evidence for its shocking claims but still managed to shake down two of the largest banks of a friendly power for $1.25 billion. The campaign set a terrible precedent, whereby a powerful domestic interest group—and major donor to the Clinton-Gore administration—harnessed the power of the U.S. government to grossly distort history and secure a financial windfall. In the process, the larger interests of the United States were subverted for the sake of a favorite domestic constituency of the ruling party.
Between the Alps and a Hard Place is both thrilling World War II history and an exposé of the shameful selling of historical truth and American foreign policy for political gain.
Angelo M. Codevilla is a professor of international relations at Boston University. He has been a U.S. Naval officer, a U.S. Foreign Service officer, a senior staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and a senior research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. His books include Informing Statecraft, War: Ends and Means (with Paul Seabury), and The Character of Nations. He lives in Dubois, Wyoming, and Wayland, Massachusetts.
Very good book on how (and why) Switzerland stayed neutral in WWII and how it was prosecuted in the 90's for it.
I really enjoyed Codevilla's writing style - good narrative, vocabulary, and an apparent master on the subject.
Each of the book's 6 chapters is jam-packed w/ information. Codevilla explains Swiss military history, how the country evolved into the neutral body that it is today, and really does a good job setting the stage for what Switzerland was just as WWII started, and why it did what it did while the war played out.
The book does an excellent job providing a window into the tip-toeing that Switzerland had to do during WWII - just enough (the bare minimum) to not get invaded by Germany, while praying/hoping for an Allied victory, and how this would be used against them 50 yrs later.
I don't want to elaborate, fearing that I may spoil it, but the book talks about the following:
- Swiss military history
- How Switzerland became neutral country
- How Swiss elections and governing bodies work
- How the country handled Jewish immigrants crossing illegally from Germany
- Public sentiment towards what the Nazis were doing
- Insight into how the Swiss used its military, economic, and political force to prevent German invasion
- How/why the Swiss were slow in taking action when it meant helping the Germans
- How the US Government and Jewish organizations sued Switzerland (and other European nations) in the 90's
- So much more...
You will enjoy this book if you enjoy history, economics, politics, and/or WWII.
Note: The book bashes the Bill Clinton Administration in the beginning and towards the end but doesn't give a political bias, limiting the criticism to how the US government dealt w/ Switzerland during the 90's. How the Swiss were duped.

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2013

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Angelo M. Codevilla

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Regnery History

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