Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Maps (page ix)
- Preface (page xi)
- Note on Geographical Terms (page xv)
- Part One: The Historical Setting
- I Introduction (page 3)
- II The Burden of History (page 13)
- Part Two: Program and Promise
- III The Unlikely Iconoclast (page 37)
- IV Sikorski's Russian Gambit (page 46)
- V Toward a New Central Europe (page 66)
- VI The Eastern Boundary: Encounter with Necessity (page 119)
- VII Synthesis: The Precarious Balance (page 137)
- Part Three: Agony and Aftermath
- VIII Setting for Disaster (page 147)
- IX Retreat from Rapprochement (page 199)
- X Boundary Politics: East versus West (page 245)
- XI The Consequences of Failure (page 315)
- Epilogue * Sikorski: Realist or Visionary? (page 351 )
- Bibliographical Essay (page 359 )
- Selected Bibliography (page 368 )
- Index (page 379 )