{"product_id":"axis-diplomacy-clara-duval-9789377940300","title":"Axis Diplomacy: The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Pact in Action","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn September 1940, the foreign ministers of Germany, Italy, and Japan signed a treaty meant to redraw the map of the world. Five years later, two of the signatories had been crushed by force of arms and the third had quietly turned its back on the others. The Rome-Berlin-Tokyo pact was the twentieth century's most ideologically loud and operationally hollow alliance, and the gap between its rhetoric and its results remains one of the most instructive puzzles in modern history. This book sets out to explain that gap with analytic precision and historical care.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAxis Diplomacy reframes the alliance as an institution rather than a slogan. It examines what the partners actually committed to in the pact text, how their liaison channels and intelligence services worked in practice, why theatre prioritisation drove them apart, and how diplomatic signalling masked deep mistrust. Drawing on the concepts of alliance theory and the discipline of wartime diplomacy, the chapters move from the origins of the Anti-Comintern arrangements through Barbarossa, Pearl Harbor, the Mediterranean campaigns, the Italian armistice, and the lonely submarine cables of 1944-1945. Throughout, the book attends to the unglamorous mechanics of military liaison, raw material exchange, and code-room compartmentalisation - the practical infrastructure on which any coalition rises or falls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book is written for general readers curious about how alliances really work, for students of history and international relations, and for policy audiences who recognise that present-day coalitions face structurally similar challenges of information, incentives, and trust. Without forcing parallels, it offers a portable framework for diagnosing coordination failure in any partnership operating under pressure. Readers will come away with a clearer sense of why the Axis behaved as it did, why its members fought what amounted to separate wars under a common name, and why the language of unity so often outruns the architecture beneath it. The result is a synthesis that treats the past with seriousness and the reader with respect, restoring to the study of alliances the analytic rigour the subject has long deserved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clara Duval\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9377940303\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789377940300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vij Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Clara Duval","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":50665733292287,"sku":"9789377940300","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/axis-diplomacy-clara-duval-9789377940300","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}