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Title: Between the Alps & A Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and Moral Blackmail Today by Angelo M. Codevilla ISBN: 0-89526-238-X Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: 01 November, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (12 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Brillant, most informative
Comment: The book is brillant. It does provide outstanding, clear but still concise explanations on 3 subjects:

1. The very nature of the Swiss nation

2. Swiss neutrality during World War 2

3. The so-called "Jewish Funds Affair" which deeply affected US-Swiss relations in the late 1990's

Having closely followed the "Jewish Funds Affair" in the 1990', an affair which I considered to be a disaster as it affected relations between two countries which shared a long and intesive friendship before the "Affair", I did not expect to learn much from the book. However, I did find a wealth of informations, and an outstanding synthesis of the all "Affair", its consequences on the US-Swiss relations, and, most interestingly, the most accurate description of the Swiss nation I had ever read.

Switzerland seems peculiar to most non-Europeans: while it is sorrounded by mono-ethnical nations such as Italy and Germany, it seems difficult to understand how this small multi-ethnical nation did not break up in the course of the 2 last centuries. Well, the book by Prof. Codevilla explains very accurately why, and explains what is peculiar about Switzerland, and why the Swiss Italian and French ethnical minorities never joined the neighbouring non-ethnical nations.

In short, the book is a must for all those who want to learn about Switzerland, its nature and its history during the 20th century.

Rating: 5
Summary: Well Worth Your Time
Comment: Lively and extremely readable, this is also a first-rate work of history, spanning two time periods-the Second World War and the Clinton Administration. Dr. Codevilla brilliantly analyzes the genuine crisis faced by Swiss politicians and military leaders during the Second World War-how to deter an invasion by Hitler's seemingly invincible Wehrmacht, which by 1940 had left the tiny country completely surrounded. How also to import enough food and coal to keep the Swiss population alive for the duration of the war? How to manage both of these tasks, without surrendering Swiss independence to the hated Nazi regime-which had been threatening invasion and calling for the liquidation of Switzerland since at least 1937? Using original sources, Codavilla answers these questions, and adds important historical perspective and moral nuance to the picture which Americans gained of Switzerland and her citizens during the late 1990s. He also addresses forthrightly the behavior of Swiss banks regarding unclaimed assets of Jews murdered by the Nazis, and the involvement of the Clinton Administration in the politicization of Holocaust accounts.

Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent opposing view to popular ideas
Comment: An excellent book, made more believeable by polling the recollections of those I know who lived through the WWII period.

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