Acknowledgement
This introduction and the following three articles constitute a special section of this issue of our journal dealing with the legacy and consequences of World War I. We thank our guest co-editor for this section, Adam Cebula, for his fine work in getting these articles published, and also for writing this introduction.
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Notes
1 See, for example, D’Abernon (Citation1931).
2 For a comprehensive account of the attitude of West European leaders to the Polish-Soviet war of 1919–1920, see Nowak (Citation2015). For an account of the war, see Davies (Citation1983).
3 The quotes are followed by the author’s remark: “Rarely, if ever, has a newly independent country been subjected to such eloquent and gratuitous abuse.”