France And The Coming Of The Second World War 1936 1939

Author : Anthony Adamthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000352788

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France and the Coming of the Second World War, 1936-1939 by Anthony Adamthwaite Pdf

First published in 1977, France and the Coming of the Second World War investigates the policies that led to the collapse of French power. The book argues that this collapse was the result of social, political, and economic troubles that buffeted French leaders. It uses a wealth of documents to explore common debates, such as Britain’s culpability for France’s inability to prevent Germany’s reoccupation of the Rhineland. It also puts forward the threat of Italy and the Mediterranean as France’s main preoccupation, rather than Germany and central Europe. France and the Coming of the Second World War uses an extensive range of archival material and includes the private papers of Daladier, Bonnet, and a number of other prominent figures. It will appeal to those with an interest in the history of the Second World War, political history, and social history.

Author : Anthony P. Adamthwaite
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : France
ISBN : LCCN:77379887

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France and the Coming of the Second World War, 1936-1939 by Anthony P. Adamthwaite Pdf

Author : Anthony P. Adamthwaite
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136647697

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The Making of the Second World War by Anthony P. Adamthwaite Pdf

First published in 1979. In this text the Adamthwaite aims at leading students through the maze of documentation surrounding the Second World War. His book combines a critical assessment of recent research and writing with a painstaking selection of the key documents needed for a clear understanding of the policies that led to war. It contains the first student selection of British, French, German, Italian and Soviet documents, many of which are translated for the first time. Though emphasis falls on the years 1935-9, material is also included for the period 1929-35.

Author : Gordon Martel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134714186

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Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered by Gordon Martel Pdf

When A.J.P. Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War appeared in 1961 it made a profound impact. The book became a classic and a central point of reference in all discussion on the Second World War. The second edition of this distinguished collection, written by leading experts in the field, is designed to bring the state of the argument up to date. The issues discussed include: * the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles * Hitlers foreign policy * Appeasement * AJP Taylor and the Russians * the treatment of the crises leading up to war including the Anschluss, Danzig, Abysinnian crises and the Spanish Civil War. This second edition will ensure that The Origins of the Second World War will remain a high priority student and scholarly reading lists.

Author : Hugh Ragsdale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139450256

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The Soviets, the Munich Crisis, and the Coming of World War II by Hugh Ragsdale Pdf

The Munich crisis is everywhere acknowledged as the prelude to World War II. If Hitler had been stopped at Munich then World War II as we know it could not have happened. The subject has been thoroughly studied in British, French and German documents and consequently we know that the weakness in the Western position at Munich consisted in the Anglo-French opinion that the Soviet commitment to its allies - France and Czechoslovakia - was utterly unreliable. What has never been seriously studied in the Western literature is the whole spectrum of East European documentation. This book targets precisely this dimension of the problem. The Romanians were at one time prepared to admit the transfer of the Red Army across their territory. The Red Army, mobilised on a massive scale, was informed that its destination was Czechoslovakia. The Polish consul in Lodavia reported the entrance of the Red Army into the country. In the meantime, Moscow focused especially on the Polish rail network. All of these findings are new, and they contribute to a considerable shift in the conventional wisdom on the subject.

Author : Talbot C. Imlay
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0199261229

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Facing the Second World War by Talbot C. Imlay Pdf

This work offers a systematic comparison of how two countries, Britain and France, responded to the possibility and then reality of total war by examining developments in three dimensions: strategic, domestic political, and political economic.

Author : Keith Eubank
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118818756

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The Origins of World War II by Keith Eubank Pdf

More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the threat from Hitler? Why was there so much reluctance on the part of Britain and France to confront Germany? Why had Germany been permitted to rearm and to occupy independent nations without a struggle? What was the policy of appeasement? Why did the appeasers fail to perceive Hitler's intentions? In addition to a re-examination of these questions and an effort to dispel the enduring myths surrounding the history of this era, Keith Eubank has enhanced this new edition by including an analysis of the motivations and actions of central figures such as Neville Chamberlain and Joseph Stalin as well as a re-assessment of Soviet policies in the light of recent research that reveals their leaders as far less altruistic than some have imagined. With an expanded conclusion, a new photo section, and an updated bibliographic essay, this book remains an excellent brief overview of the period between 1918 and 1939.

Author : Michael Jabara Carley
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461699385

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1939 by Michael Jabara Carley Pdf

At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt Hitler’s aggression. Incredibly, the French and British governments dallied, talks failed, and in August 1939 the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Germany. Michael Carley’s gripping account of these negotiations is not a pretty story. It is about the failures of appeasement and collective security in Europe. It is about moral depravity and blindness, about villains and cowards, and about heroes who stood against the intellectual and popular tides of their time. Some died for their beliefs, others labored in obscurity and have been nearly forgotten. In 1939 they sought to make the Grand Alliance that never was between France, Britain, and the Soviet Union. This story of their efforts is background to the wartime alliance created in 1941 without France but with the United States in order to defeat a demonic enemy. 1939 is based upon Mr. Carley’s longtime research on the period, including work in French, British, and newly opened Soviet archives. He challenges prevailing interpretations of the origins of World War II by situating 1939 at the end of the early cold war between the Soviet Union, France, and Britain, and by showing how anti-communism was the major cause of the failure to form an alliance against Hitler. 1939 was published on September 1, the sixtieth anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the start of the war.

Author : Henry Kissinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780671510992

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Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger Pdf

Kissinger defines diplomacy with an overview of his own interpretation of history and personal accounts of negotiations with world leaders.

Author : Philip Nord
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780300190687

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France 1940 by Philip Nord Pdf

In this revisionist account of France’s crushing defeat in 1940, a world authority on French history argues that the nation’s downfall has long been misunderstood. Philip Nord assesses France’s diplomatic and military preparations for war with Germany, its conduct of the war once the fighting began, and the political consequences of defeat on the battlefield. He also tracks attitudes among French leaders once defeat seemed a likelihood, identifying who among them took advantage of the nation’s misfortunes to sabotage democratic institutions and plot an authoritarian way forward. Nord finds that the longstanding view that France’s collapse was due to military unpreparedeness and a decadent national character is unsupported by fact. Instead, he reveals that the Third Republic was no worse prepared and its military failings no less dramatic than those of the United States and other Allies in the early years of the war. What was unique in France was the betrayal by military and political elites who abandoned the Republic and supported the reprehensible Vichy takeover. Why then have historians and politicians ever since interpreted the defeat as a judgment on the nation as a whole? Why has the focus been on the failings of the Third Republic and not on elite betrayal? The author examines these questions in a fascinating conclusion.

Author : Patrick Finney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136932939

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Remembering the Road to World War Two by Patrick Finney Pdf

‘This is comparative history on a grand scale, skilfully analysing complex national debates and drawing major conclusions without ever losing the necessary nuances of interpretation.’ Stefan Berger, University of Manchester, UK Remembering the Road to World War Two is a broad and comparative international survey of the historiography of the origins of the Second World War. It explores how, in the case of each of the major combatant countries, historical writing on the origins of the Second World War has been inextricably entwined with debates over national identity and collective memory. Spanning seven case studies – the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain, the United States and Japan – Patrick Finney proposes a fresh approach to the politics of historiography. This provocative volume discusses the political, cultural, disciplinary and archival factors which have contributed to the evolving construction of historical interpretations. It analyses the complex and multi-faceted relationships between texts about the origins of the war, the negotiation of conceptions of national identity and unfolding processes of war remembrance. Offering an innovative perspective on international history and enriching the literature on collective memory, this book will prove fascinating reading for all students of the Second World War.

Author : Anthony Adamthwaite
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472578020

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Grandeur And Misery by Anthony Adamthwaite Pdf

A central question in European history is how did a great power pre-eminent in 1918 lie defeated by the same enemy less than 20 years later. Until recently the explanation has been sought in fundamental weaknesses that could only leave the French of 1940 hamstrung and demoralized. Recent studies have challenged that view and now, for the first time, the revisionist approach is displayed in a single volume, both summarizing the research of others and drawing on the author's own work in the archives. The book is about as far from 'dry as dust' diplomatic history as it's possible to get. Its very readable and the author manages to show with the telling anecdote that even a serious subject has its comic side: that, for instance, the French High Command kept forces stationed in the Alps for seven years because no one in the foreign service had thought to pass on news about a secret treaty between Italy and France in 1902; or that after a particularly stressful meeting Andrew Bonar Law, the British prime minister, mouth to Poincaré, the French president, through the closed carriage window of his train 'and you go to hell', all the while smiling and exuding affability. Such episodes are not the substance of the book, but they oil its progress.

Author : Douglas Porch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009293532

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Defeat and Division by Douglas Porch Pdf

Defeat and Division launches a definitive new account of France in the Second World War. In this first volume, Douglas Porch dissects France's 1940 collapse, the dynamics of occupation, and the rise of Charles de Gaulle's Free France crusade, culminating in the November 1942 Allied invasion of French North Africa. He captures the full sweep of France's wartime experience in Europe, Africa, and beyond, from soldiers and POWs to civilians-in-arms, colonial subjects, and foreign refugees. He recounts France's struggles to reconstruct military power within the context of a global conflict, with its armed forces shattered into warring factions and the country under Axis occupation. Disagreements over the causes of the 1940 debacle and the subsequent requirement for the armistice mirrored long-standing fractures in politics, society, and the French military itself, as efforts to reconstitute French military power crumbled into Vichy collaboration, De Gaulle's exile resistance, Alsace-Moselle occupation struggles, and a scuffle for imperial supremacy.

Author : Julian Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521522676

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The Politics of Depression in France 1932-1936 by Julian Jackson Pdf

This book examines debates about the formation of French economic policy during the Great Depression.

Author : Matthew Evangelista
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415339243

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Peace Studies by Matthew Evangelista Pdf

The academic field of Peace Studies emerged during the Cold War to address the nature and sources of interstate and internal conflict and methods to prevent it and deal with its consequences.