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The origins of the Second World War: a reader / edited by Patrick Finney

By: edited by Finney, Patrick Material type: Text

TextSeries: Arnold readers in historyPublication details: London; New York: New York, NY: Arnold; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997Description: xviii, 461 p.; 25 cmISBN: 0340676418 (hb : alk. paper); 034067640X (pbk : alk. paper)Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- CausesDDC classification: 940.5311

Contents:

SECTION I INTERPRETATIONS AND DEBATES Commentary 1 ’We must hope for the best and prepare for the worst’: the Prime Minister, the Cabinet and Hitler’s Germany, 19371939 David Dilks 2 ’Guilty men': the case of Neville Chamberlain Sidney Aster 3 France and the coming of war Anthony Adamthwaite 4 Debate: Germany, ’domestic crisis’ and war in 1939 Tim Mason and R.J. Overy SECTION II GERMANY, ITALY, THE USSR AND JAPAN: Commentary DICTATORSHIPS AND REVISIONISM 5 Nazi foreign policy: Hitler’s ’programme’ or ’expansion without object’? Ian Kershaw 6 The fascist regime, its foreign policy and its wars: an ’anti-anti-fascist’ orthodoxy? MacGregor Knox 7 Soviet security policy in the 1930s Teddy J. Uldricks 8 Britain and the United States in Japan’s view of the international system, 1937-1941 Hosoya Chihiro SECTION III GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND THE UNITED Commentary STATES: DEMOCRACIES AT BAY 9 Alternatives to appeasement R.A.C. Parker 10 France and the remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936 Stephen A. Schuher 11 The United States and National Socialist Germany Arnold A. Offner 12 The origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific: synthesis impossible? Michael A. Barnhart SECTION IV BEYOND DIPLOMACY; ECONOMICS, Commentary STRATEGY AND OPINION 13 The ’Anglo-German connection’ and the political economy of appeasement Scott Newton 14 Net assessment in Nazi Germany in the 1930s Williamson Murray 15 Threat identification and strategic appraisal by the Soviet Union, 1930-1941 John Erickson 16 Propaganda in international politics, 1919-1939 Philip M. Taylor SECTION V THE APPROACH OF WAR Commentary 17 The Spanish Civil War and the coming of the Second World War Wtllard C. Frank, Jr 18 Munich after 50 years Gerhard L. Weinberg 19 Poland in British and French policy in 1939: determination to fight - or avoid war? Anna M. Cienciala 20 1940: fulcrum of the twentieth century? David Reynolds Index of names

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

SECTION I INTERPRETATIONS AND DEBATES
Commentary
1 ’We must hope for the best and prepare for the worst’: the
Prime Minister, the Cabinet and Hitler’s Germany, 19371939
David Dilks
2 ’Guilty men': the case of Neville Chamberlain
Sidney Aster
3 France and the coming of war
Anthony Adamthwaite
4 Debate: Germany, ’domestic crisis’ and war in 1939
Tim Mason and R.J. Overy
SECTION II GERMANY, ITALY, THE USSR AND JAPAN:
Commentary
DICTATORSHIPS AND REVISIONISM
5 Nazi foreign policy: Hitler’s ’programme’ or ’expansion without
object’?
Ian Kershaw
6 The fascist regime, its foreign policy and its wars:
an ’anti-anti-fascist’ orthodoxy? MacGregor Knox
7 Soviet security policy in the 1930s
Teddy J. Uldricks
8 Britain and the United States in Japan’s view of the international
system, 1937-1941
Hosoya Chihiro
SECTION III GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND THE UNITED
Commentary
STATES: DEMOCRACIES AT BAY
9 Alternatives to appeasement
R.A.C. Parker
10 France and the remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936
Stephen A. Schuher
11 The United States and National Socialist Germany
Arnold A. Offner
12 The origins of the Second World War in Asia and the Pacific:
synthesis impossible?
Michael A. Barnhart
SECTION IV BEYOND DIPLOMACY; ECONOMICS,
Commentary
STRATEGY AND OPINION
13 The ’Anglo-German connection’ and the political economy of
appeasement
Scott Newton
14 Net assessment in Nazi Germany in the 1930s
Williamson Murray
15 Threat identification and strategic appraisal by the Soviet Union,
1930-1941
John Erickson
16 Propaganda in international politics, 1919-1939
Philip M. Taylor

SECTION V THE APPROACH OF WAR
Commentary
17 The Spanish Civil War and the coming of the Second World War
Wtllard C. Frank, Jr
18 Munich after 50 years
Gerhard L. Weinberg
19 Poland in British and French policy in 1939: determination to
fight - or avoid war?
Anna M. Cienciala
20 1940: fulcrum of the twentieth century? David Reynolds
Index of names

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