Paths to War: New Essays on the Origins of the Second World War

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-32
The Legacy of the First World War....Pages 33-54
‘World Depression, World War: Some Economic Origins of the Second World War’....Pages 55-95
Hitler’s War Plans And The German Economy....Pages 96-127
The Cut Price War on the Peripheries: The French General Staff, The Rhineland And Czechoslovakia....Pages 128-166
Anglo-Italian Rivalry in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1935–1940....Pages 167-198
The European Great Powers and The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939....Pages 199-232
‘Guilty Men’: The Case of Neville Chamberlain....Pages 233-268
Why the British Dominions Declared War....Pages 269-296
Deterrent Diplomacy: Roosevelt and the Containment of Germany, 1938–1940....Pages 297-329
German Mobilisation Preparations and the Treaties Between Germany and the Soviet Union of August and September 1939....Pages 330-366
Hitler Turns from the West to Russia May–December 1940....Pages 367-382
The Japanese Decision to Move South(1939–1941)....Pages 383-407
Back Matter....Pages 408-431