The Origins of the Second World War - Rilegato

Overy, R. J.

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ISBN 10: 1138835218 ISBN 13: 9781138835214

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2014

Riassunto

The book explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941. The war has usually been seen simply as Hitler’s war and yet the wider conflict that broke out when Germany invaded Poland was not the war that Hitler wanted. He had hoped for a short war against Poland; instead, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

Richard Overy argues that any explanation of the outbreak of hostilities must therefore be multi-national and he shows how the war’s origins are to be found in the basic instability of the international system that was brought about by the decline of the old empires of Britain and France and the rise of ambitious new powers, Italy, Germany and Japan, keen to build new empires of their own.

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L'autore:

Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has authored 17 books on the Third Reich, the Second World War and air warfare which include:The Air War 1939-1945 (2nd ed, 2006), Why the Allies Won (2nd ed, 2006) and The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia (2004) which won both the Wolfson and the Hessell Tiltman Prizes for History in 2005.

Contenuti:

(Current edition)

PART ONE: THE BACKGROUND

1. Explaining the Second World War

 

PART TWO: ANALYSIS

2. The International Crisis

   The collapse of the League

   France and Britain

   America and the Soviet Union

   From the Rhineland to Munich

3. Economic and Imperial Rivalry

   The imperial powers

   The ‘have-not’ powers

   The failure of ‘Economic Appeasement’

4. Armaments and Domestic Politics

   Rearmament

   Finance, industry and labour

   Rearmament and domestic politics

5. War Over Poland

   The aftermath of Munich

   The Soviet factor

   The outbreak of the war

6. From European to World War

   The war in the west

   Barbarossa

   The coming of world war

 

PART THREE: ASSESSMENT

7. Hitler’s War?

PART FOUR: DOCUMENTS

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1138835218
• ISBN 13: 9781138835214
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 192