Introduction - McDonough / 1.The Versailles Settlement: The Start of the Road to the Second World War? - Sharp / 2. The League of Nations: An Idea Before its Time? - Henig / 3. An Ideological Genealogy of Imperial Era Japanese Militarism - Sheftall / 4. Italian Foreign Policy and the Road to War 1918-39: Ambitions and Delusions of the Least of the Great Powers - Bosworth / 5. The Failure of Detente? German Foreign Policy from Locarno to German Rearmament - Fischer / 6. Hitler, German Foreign Policy and the Road to War: A German Perspective - Ludicke / 7. Germany's Twisted Road to War 1918-39 - Forster / 8. The Prussian Tradition, the Myth of the Blitzkrieg and the Illusion of German Military Dominance 1939-41 - Citino / 9. Guilty Men? Three British Foreign Secretaries in the 1930s - Dutton / 10. Neville Chamberlain and the Consequences of the Churchillian Hegemony - Charmley / 11. When Instinct Clouds Judgement: Neville Chamberlain and the Pursuit of Appeasement with Nazi Germany 1937-39 - McDonough / 12. The Missing Dimension? The Role of British Intelligence in British Policy Making - Walton and Quinlan / 13. Appeasement Reconsidered: Reflections on the Road to War - Record / 14. A Very British Channel: British and French Appeasement - Young / 15. Politics, Strategy and Economics: A Comparative Analysis of British and French 'Appeasement' - Imlay / 16. Neutrality de jour: Switzerland and the Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935-36 - Wylie and Wyss / 17. The Role of the Neutral European Powers -Karsh / 18. The International Implications of the Spanish Civil War - Moradiellos / 19. The Middle East and the Coming of War - Fraser / 20. The 'Jewish Question' and its Impact on International Affairs 1914-39 - Levene / 21. The Sudeten Crisis of 1938: Benes and Munich - Hauner / 22. Poland and the Origins of the Second World War - Wandycz / 23. Poland, the 'Danzig Question' and the Outbreak of the Second World War - Prazmowska / 24. Stalin and the Outbreak of the Second World War -Roberts / 25. American Isolationism and the Coming of War - Jonas / 26. The Pivotal Role of the USA in the International Relations of the Inter-War Period - Cohrs / 27. Japanese Foreign Policy and the Outbreak of the Asia-Pacific War: The Search for a Modus Vivendi in US-Japan Relations after July 1941 - Iguchi / 28. A Re-evaluation of the Role of Economic Factors in the Origins of the Second World War - Overy / 29. Historians at War - Adamthwaite.
Major international experts offer new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War.
Frank McDonough is a recognised authority on Anglo-German relations and is Professor of International History at Liverpool John Moores University. A prolific writer, his books include Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War (1998); The Holocaust (2008); and Sophie Scholl: Heroine of the German Resistance (2009)
Here is modern history-writing at its very best. Frank McDonough
has brought together no fewer than 30 other leading scholars to
examine that most vital of historical moments - the outbreak of the
Second World War - from every conceivable international aspect.
Ground-breaking, fascinating, occasionally deeply revisionist and
always highly readable; this sets the mark for all collaborative
history from now on
*Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the
Second World War*
This is the perfect companion for the scholar and student of the
origins of the Second World War. Accessible and extraordinarily
comprehensive, it raises a raft of new scholarly questions, while
its breadth and the standing of its contributors will without doubt
make it a standard work
*Glenda Sluga, Professor of International History, University of
Sydney, Australia.*
An international history of the origins of the Second World War at
its best...Internationalizing the study of history, obviously an
important objective, is easier said than carried out, but this
volume shows that the ideal can become a reality when a leading
scholar brings together a number of scholars from various countries
who share his vision and cooperate with him in producing an
insightful new volume
*Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Research Professor of American
History, Harvard University, US*
Frank McDonough has managed a tour de force with this splendid
collection on the origins of the Second World War. The gathering
together in one volume of twenty-eight distinguished historians
from half a dozen countries is itself a remarkable achievement. The
exhaustively researched, lucid essays addressing the long-term
causes of the war from a wide variety of perspectives represent a
model of what international history should be. The book is the most
comprehensive treatment of this complicated historical topic and
will be of interest not only to scholarly specialists but to the
reading public as well
*William R. Keylor, Professor of International Relations and
History, Boston University, US*
Professor Frank McDonough has edited an important book of essays by
no fewer than 30 distinguished historians... which sheds fresh
light on that fascinating and febrile period.
*The Sunday Telegraph: One of the historian Andrew Roberts'
selections for his 'books of the year'*
‘This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader
interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for
scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished
primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original
research into a general discussion of a topic.'—Choice Magazine
‘This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader
interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for
scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished
primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original
research into a general discussion of a topic.'—Choice Magazine
‘This collection of 29 short essays will be useful to any reader
interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for
scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished
primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original
research into a general discussion of a topic.'—Choice Magazine
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