Contents: James S. Corum/Olaf Mertelsmann/Kaarel Piirimäe: Introduction - Louis Clerc: Mediation and Intervention in the Back of Beyond: Small States in the Eastern Baltic and France's Strategic Calculations, 1936-1940 - Thierry Grosbois: Belgian Diplomacy in Exile and the Baltic states 1940-45 - Pauli Heikkilä: Minister T.M. Kivimäki in the Center of Europe - for the Periphery of Europe - Tina Tamman: Wartime Diplomacy in London: How Britain Came to Partially Recognize the Soviet Annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - Mika Raudvassar: Needs and Realities in Estonian Air Defense: The Interwar Years - David M. Glantz: The Baltic Region in the Soviet-German War, 1941-1945 - James S. Corum: First Air Fleet Operations in the Baltic Region, June-December 1941 - Valdis Kuzmins: The 15th Division of the Latvian Legion in the Fight on the Velikaya River (1 March-14 April 1944): A Case Study in Maintaining Fighting Power - Ardi Siilaberg: County Level Operational Groups as Part of the Soviet Strategy to Reoccupy Estonia during the Second World War - Lars Ericson Wolke: Exodus and Intelligence Operations: the Swedish Military and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, 1943-45 - Kristo Nurmis: Between Aspiration and Adaptation: German War Propaganda in Occupied Estonia from 1941 till 1942 - Kari Alenius: The Reception of German War Propaganda in Estonia, 1941-1944 - Toomas Hiio: The Relationship of the Military and Civilian Authorities in Estonia during the German Occupation of 1941-1944 - Kaarel Piirimäe: Second Front in the West: Estonia, the Baltic Question and the Struggle for British Public Opinion, 1941-44.