The Road to War - Hardcover

Overy, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394582608 ISBN 13: 9780394582603

Publisher: Random House, 1990

Synopsis

Traces the origins of World War II, reconstructing the domestic problems and international ambitions of Germany, Great Britain, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Overy is Professor in History at the University of Exeter. He has written several books on the subject of the Second World War and its origins.

Andrew Wheatcroft has written many books on early modern and modern history and is currently Director of The Centre for Publishing Studies.

From Library Journal:

This companion to a BBC-TV series is an eminently readable revision of the causes of World War II. Expanding upon earlier revisionist studies such as A.J.P. Taylor's Origins of the Second World War (LJ 4/15/62; Atheneum, 1983. pap.), Overy presents the 1920s and 1930s as perceived by the major powers at the time without the benefit of hindsight. There are no "pure knights" here preparing for the "good war," only paranoid politicians haunted by the effects of World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the Great Depression weaving alliances motivated by an all-pervading social Darwinism. Even Poland is not the "innocent victim" of hindsight; among other things, the idea for resettling Jews in Madagascar was originally Polish. One could fault Overy for playing down Stalin's more sinister machinations, but suspicious as the Western powers were of Bolshevism, they did see Russia as a deterrent to German expansion. A major contribution to renewed interest in the 1930s.
-Robert Stenzel, New York
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0394582608
• ISBN 13: 9780394582603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 364