Research Catalog

Title

How war came : the immediate origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939 / Donald Cameron Watt.

Author

Watt, Donald Cameron

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, 1989.

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Details

Description

xiv, 736 p., [24] p. of plates : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 > Causes
• 1939-1945

Note

• Maps on end-papers.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 679-709)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

May 1945: Europe's end -- The preliminaries to Europe's suicide -- Hitler plans a new war -- Ribbentrop in difficulties -- Rearmament and settlement: Chamberlain after Munich -- Lord Halifax is alarmed -- Stalin makes a speech -- Divided counsels in Washington: Roosevelt backs Britain and France -- Hitler enters Prague -- Chamberlain chooses containment -- Hitler turns against Poland -- Anger in Rome -- Stalin begins to calculate -- Decision in May -- Muddled signals from Washington -- The struggle for the Balkans: round 1 - Turkey -- The struggle for the Balkans: round 2 - Yugoslavia and the drift to the West -- Hitler steps up he pressure: 'die for danzig?' -- The Japanese army overplays its hand -- Molotov calls for bids -- The amateurs attempt to avert a war -- Italy betrayed -- Hitler wills his war -- Ribbentrop in Moscow: the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed -- The impact of the Nazi-Soviet Pact -- War ordered-and deferred: August 25 in Berlin -- Regrouping for war -- Poland attacked: the West's inglorious hour -- Fencing in, fencing out war: Roosevelt, Pius XII, King Léopold and the neutrals -- Thunder in London -- September 3: the British ultimatum -- Afterthoughts.

ISBN

• 039457916X
• 0415032903 (pbk.)
• 0679730931

LCCN

^^^89008802^

OCLC

• 19921655
• SCSB-12216243

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library