The Spectre of War
Author | : Jonathan Haslam |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780691182650 |
ISBN-13 | : 0691182655 |
Rating | : 4/5 (655 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Spectre of War written by Jonathan Haslam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global history of the Interwar period, which posits a new history for the origins of the Second World War. Haslam argues that it was not only the failures of the treaties that ended the First World War that led to the Second. Rather, fear of international communism hampered the Great Powers and prevented the necessary diplomatic steps to contain the aggression of Germany and Japan to a much greater extent and much earlier in history than previous scholarship has recognized