Diplomats Without a Country: Baltic Diplomacy, International Law, and the Cold War (Contributions to the Study of World History)

McHugh has done a disservice to the Baltic people and the United States diplomacy. He, in effect, besmirches the Stimson Doctrine which denied legitimacy to territorial acquisitions by power.
McHughas work typifies the leftist attitude emanating from our academia.

This book deserves a 3 and 1/2 star rating but since we can't do halfsies here I'll have to round down. The subject is more fascinating than this book reads. The author repeats himself way too many times and offers us a very limited perspective on the topic. Admittedtly that view, of the legitimacy of the representation of the Baltic peoples through their foreign legations, limits discussion, but the human dimension of an imprisoned people struggling for cultural survival deserves more than the dry legalese this book is written in.
Since there is so little on this subject, for aficionados of esoteric cold war conflicts, this is almost a must-read. Hopefully someone will take up the mantle and write a volume on the people of the Baltic diaspora that helped these isolated legations maintain the embers of repressed nationalism.