| Edition |
[First edition]. |
| Description |
287 pages: maps.; 22 cm. |
| Series |
History of Europe
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references: (pages 269-272) and index. |
| Contents |
General character of the period 1919-45 -- The post-war crisis 1919-24 -- The prosperous five years 1924-9 -- The period of the Great Depression 1929-33. Violent change in Russia ; Democracy breaks down in Poland 1924-32 ; Germany and Austria: Hitler chancellor of Germany 1933 -- The decline of France 1933-6. Crisis of February and October 1934 ; The Italian attack on Ethiopia and the re-militarisation of the Rhineland, 1935-6 ; Italy, Germany and the Anschluss -- The thirties elsewhere. The Balkans and Hungary 1929-36 ; The northern and low countries and Switzerland ; Russia 1933-7 -- The Spanish Civil War 1936-9 -- The Munich Agreement 1938 -- The fall of Poland 1932-9 -- The fall of France 1936-40 -- The destruction of Yugoslavia 1936-41 -- Stalin and Hitler 1936-41 -- Hitler's Europe 1941-3 -- The rise of Tito and the fall of Mussolini -- The allies in Rome and in Normandy June 1944: the twentieth July in Germany -- The liberation of France: Roumania changes sides: risings in Poland and Slovakia -- Disintegration of Nazi Germany: allied plans for future international organisation -- Literature and the arts. Scientific development. Life in general. |
| Subject |
Europe -- History -- 1918-1945.
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