The dark valley : a panorama of the 1930s / Piers Brendon
| Author(s): | Brendon, Piers |
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| Subjects: | World politics, 1933-1945 National socialism Europe--History--1918-1945 Japan--History--1926-1945 Soviet Union--History--1925-1953 |
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| Material Type: | Books |
| Language: | English |
| Audience: | Unspecified |
| Edition: | 1st American ed |
| Published: | New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000 |
| LC Classification: | D |
| Table of Contents: | List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction I. The Harvest of Armageddon 3 II. The Roots of Fascism 21 III. The Bane of Capitalism 43 IV. Depression in America 69 V. The Triumph of Hitler 88 VI. The Duce and the Pope 108 VII. The Decadence of France 128 VIII. The Slump in Britain 150 IX. Japan's Imperial Destiny 174 X. Stalin's Revolution 197 XI. The New Deal 220 XII. The Nazis in Power 240 XIII. Mussolini's Abyssinian Adventure 262 XIV. Leon Blum and the Popular Front 283 XV. The Coming of the Spanish Civil War 307 XVI. Franco's Victory 330 XVII. Britain's Royal State 353 XVIII. The Rise of Japanese Militarism 374 XIX. The Soviet Purges 397 XX. America in Isolation 422 XXI. The Fuhrer's Path to War 445 XXII. The Fascist Axis 469 XXIII. France's Lean Years 492 XXIV. Churchill, Chamberlain and Appeasement 516 XXV. Nippon in China 541 XXVI. The Making of the Nazi-Soviet Pact 565 Conclusion 589 Notes 593 Select Bibliography 676 Index 679 |
| Notes: | LCCN: 00034918 ISBN: 0375408819 (alk. paper) "Originally published in Great Britain by Jonathan Cape, London, in 2000"--t.p. verso Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-773) and index |
| Physical Description: | xviii, 795 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| OCLC Number: | 44046943 |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 0375408819 |