Description
A classic of its kind, PMH Bell's famous book is a comprehensive study of the period and debates surrounding the European origins of the Second World War.
- Content has been updated to take into account the new historiography that has come out since 1997
- Established as one of the classic books in this field
Table of Contents
Chronology
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION
1. On War and the Causes of War
2. A Thirty Years War? The Disintegration of Europe
3. The Case Against a Thirty Years War: The Restoration of Europe
4. History and Historians
PART TWO: THE UNDERLYING FORCES.
The Role of Ideology
5. Italian Fascism
6. German Nazism
7. Parliamentary Democracy: France and Britain
8. Soviet Communism
Economic Issues and the Coming of War
9. The Great Depression and International Relations
10. Economic Problems and the Coming of War
The Role of Strategy and Armed Force
11. Armed Forces, Strategy and Foreign Policy (1): France and Britain
12. Armed Forces, Strategy and Foreign Policy (2): Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union
PART THREE: THE COMING OF WAR 1932-1941
13. From Peace to the Eve of War, 1932-1937
14. War postponed, 1938
15. Decisions for War, 1939
16. The Expanding War, 1939-1940
17. Germany and the Soviet Union, 1940-1941
Conclusion
Who’s Who
Bibliography
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- The Great Powers and the European States System 1814-1914, 2nd Edition
F.R. Bridge, Roger Bullen - Origins of the Cold War 1941-49: Revised 3rd Edition, 3rd Edition
Martin McCauley - The European Union since 1945
Alasdair Blair
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ISBN-10: 1-4058-4028-5
ISBN-13: 978-1-4058-4028-6
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