Tragedy and hope : a history of the world in our time

 Content: Introduction : Western civilization in its world setting --
 Western civilization to 1914 --
 The Russian empire to 1917 --
 The buffer fringe --
 The First World War, 1914-1918 --
 The Versailles system and the return to "normalcy," 1919-1929 --
 Finance, commercial policy, and business activity, 1897-1947 --
 International socialism and the Soviet challenge --
 Germany from kaiser to Hitler, 1913-1945 --
 Britain : the background to appeasement, 1900-1939 --
 Changing economic patterns --
 The policy of appeasement, 1931-1936 --
 The disruption of Europe --
 World War II : the tide of aggression, 1939-1941 --
 World War II : the ebb of aggression, 1941-1945 --
 The new age --
 Nuclear rivalry and the Cold War : American atomic supremacy, 1945-1950 --
 Nuclear rivalry and the Cold War : the race for the H-bomb, 1950-1957 --
 The new era, 1957-1964 --
 Tragedy and hope : the future in perspective.