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Zusatztext ‘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interested in the origins of WWII...The most valuable chapters for scholars will probably be those based largely on unpublished primary sources...Various other essays incorporate original research into a general discussion of a topic.'—Choice Magazine Informationen zum Autor Frank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) Klappentext Major international experts offer new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. Vorwort Major international experts offer new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. Zusammenfassung A collection of articles that offers interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. It includes chaptesr that are based on archival research. It is suitable for general reader, historians, students and researchers, policy makers, and international relations experts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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....
