The Versailles settlement : the start of the road to the Second World War? / Alan Sharp --; The League of Nations : an idea before its time? / Ruth Henig --; An ideological genealogy of imperial era Japanese militarism / M.G. Sheftall --; Italian foreign policy and the road to war 1918-39 : ambitions and delusions of the least of the great powers / R.J.B. Bosworth --; The failure of detente? : German-French relations between Stresemann and Hitler, 1929-32 / Conan Fischer --; Hitler, German foreign policy and the road to war : a German perspective / Lars Ludicke --; Germany's twisted road to war, 1919-39 / Jurgen Forster --; The Prussian tradition, the myth of the blitzkrieg and the illusion of German military dominance, 1939-41 / Robert M. Citino --; Guilty men? : three British foreign secretaries of the 1930s / David Dutton --; Neville Chamberlain and the consequences of the Churchillian hegemony / John Charmley --; When instinct clouds judgement : Neville Chamberlain and the pursuit of appeasement with Nazi Germany, 1937-9 / Frank McDonough --; Missed opportunities? : intelligence and the British road to war / Kevin Quinlan and Calder Walton --; Appeasement : a critical evaluation seventy years on / Jeffrey Record --; A very English Channel : Britain and French appeasement / Robert J. Young --; Politics, strategy and economics : a comparative analysis of British and French 'Appeasement' / Talbot Imlay --; Neutrality 'de jour' : Switzerland and the Italo-Abyssinian War of 1935-6 / Neville Wylie and Marco Wyss --; The European neutrals and the Second World War / Efraim Karsh --; The international dimensions of the Spanish Civil War / Enrique Moradiellos --; The Middle East and the coming of war / T.G. Fraser --; The 'Jewish Question' and its impact on international affairs, 1914-39 / Mark Levene --; The Sudeten Crisis of 1938 : Benes and Munich / Milan Hauner --; Poland and the origins of the Second World War / Piotr S. Wandycz --; Poland, the 'Danzig Question' and the outbreak of the Second World War / Anita J. Prazmowska --; Stalin and the outbreak of the Second World War / Geoffrey Roberts --; American isolationism and the coming of the Second World War / Manfred Jonas --; A pivotal power : the United States and the international system of the inter-war period / Patrick O. Cohrs --; Japanese foreign policy and the outbreak of the Asia-Pacific War : the search of a modus vivendi in US-Japanese relations after July 1941 / Haruo Iguchi --; Economics and the origins of the Second World War / Richard J. Overy --; Historians at war / Anthony Adamthwaite.
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Many major world events have occurred since the last key anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War, and these events have had a€dramatic impact on the international stage: 9/11, the Iraq War, climate change and the world economic crisis. This is an opportune moment to bring together a group of major international experts who will offer a series of new interpretations of the key aspects of the origins of the Second World War. Each chapter is based on€original archival research and written by scholars who are all leading experts in their fields. This is a truly international.