Faustian Bargain - The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War

Offers the full story of a fateful alliance between past and future mortal enemies--long preceding the well-known Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact--whose dimensions were kept secret from the outside world and yet which set the stage for World War Two and its outcome.

List of contents

• PART I: Sowing the Wind


• Chapter 1: The Bolshevik's Army


• Chapter Two: Revolution and Reaction


• Chapter Three: The Treaty of Versailles


• Chapter Four: The Polish-Bolshevik War


• Chapter Five: The Corporate Program


• Chapter Six: The Road to Rapallo


• Chapter Seven: Poison Gas


• Chapter Eight: Coups and Countermeasures


• Chapter Nine: Partners in Mass Destruction


• Chapter Ten: From Fili to Lipetsk


• Chapter Eleven: The Military Futurists


• Chapter Twelve: The Junkers Scandal


• Chapter Thirteen: Resetting Relations


• Chapter Fourteen: Fires and Scandals


• Chapter Fifteen: Chemical Weapons and Fighter Pilots


• Chapter Sixteen: The Tanks ARrive


• Chapter Seventeen: Winter of Crisis


• Chapter Eighteen: Machines of the Future


• Chapter Nineteen: Yellow Cross


• Chapter Twenty: Hunger


• PART II: Reaping the Whirlwind


• Chapter Twenty-One: Schliecher


• Chapter Twenty-Two: Rearmament Begins


• Chapter Twenty-Three: The End of the Republic


• Chapter Twenty-Four: Enemies Again


• Chapter Twenty-Five: Long Knives


• Chapter Twenty-Six: The End of Versailles


• Chapter Twenty-Seven: War Returns to Europe


• Chapter Twenty-Eight: Purges and Panic


• Chapter Twenty-Nine: Storm Clouds


• Chapter Thirty: Fulfillment


• Chapter Thirty-One: From Winter to Phony War


• Chapter Thirty-Two: Whirlwind


• Conclusion


• Notes


• Index

About the author

Ian Ona Johnson is the P.J. Moran Family Assistant Professor of Military History at the University of Notre Dame. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, among other publications.

Summary

Offers the full story of a fateful alliance between past and future mortal enemies--long preceding the well-known Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact--whose dimensions were kept secret from the outside world and yet which set the stage for World War Two and its outcome.

Additional text

This is a well-written and extremely well-documented treatment of the subject.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Ona Johnson, Ian Ona (Associate Director of the Brady- Johnson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.11.2021
• EAN: 9780190675141
• ISBN: 978-0-19-067514-1
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, General & world history, Politics & government, Second World War, Politics and government, General and world history, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General, HISTORY / Russia / General