The road to war
by Overy, R. J.
"Many historians, starting with Winston Churchill, have argued that cowardly appeasers in Britain and France sold the Czechs down the river in 1938 and failed to stand up to Hitler until it was far too late." "Such a simplistic, moralizing account, the authors argue, totally ignores developments in Japan, the USA and USSR, and the deep involvement of the Western powers with their empires." "The Road to War analyses the motives and restricted options of all the great combatant nations in the cou…
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- Full title :The road to war / Richard Overy with Andrew Wheatcroft.
Summary
"Many historians, starting with Winston Churchill, have argued that cowardly appeasers in Britain and France sold the Czechs down the river in 1938 and failed to stand up to Hitler until it was far too late." "Such a simplistic, moralizing account, the authors argue, totally ignores developments in Japan, the USA and USSR, and the deep involvement of the Western powers with their empires." "The Road to War analyses the motives and restricted options of all the great combatant nations in the countdown to war. It has now been fully revised, with particular reference to material newly released from the Soviet archives."--Jacket.
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:1999.
- Edition:Rev. and updated ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Penguin
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
Notes
Previous edition: London: Macmillan, 1989.
The Physical Object
- Description:xix, 443 pages ; : 20 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:014028530X, 9780140285307
- oclc:on1027332298
- LC Classification:D741
- Dewey Decimal:940.5311
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