| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
xviii, 795 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Originally published in Great Britain by Johnathan Cape, London, in 2000"--t.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [693]-773) and index. |
| Contents |
The harvest of Armageddon. --The roots of fascism. --The bane of capitalism. --Depression in America. --The triumph of Hitler. --The duce and the pope. --The decadence of France. --The slump in Britain. --Japan's imperial destiny. --Stalin's revolution. --The New Deal. --The nazis in power. --Mussolini's Abyssinian adventure. --Léon Blum and the popular front. --The coming of the Spanish civil war. --Franco's victory. --Britain's royal state. --The rise of Japanese militarism. --The Soviet purges. --America in isolation. --The Führer's path to war. --The fascist axis. --France's lean years. --Churchill, Chamberlain and appeasement. --Nippon in China. --The making of the Nazi-Soviet pact. |
| Subject |
World politics -- 1933-1945.
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National socialism.
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Europe -- History -- 1918-1945.
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Japan -- History -- 1926-1945.
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Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953.
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| ISBN |
0375408819 alkaline paper |
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9780375408816 alkaline paper |
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