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The Origins of the Second World War
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Routledge
Publication date December 22, 2014
Pages 150
Binding Hardcover
Edition 3 reprint
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9781138835214
ISBN-10 1138835218
Dimensions 0.75 by 6.75 by 9.50 in.
Weight 1 lbs.
Original list price $140.00
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The book explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941. The war has usually been seen simply as Hitler’s war and yet the wider conflict that broke out when Germany invaded Poland was not the war that Hitler wanted. He had hoped for a short war against Poland; instead, Britain and France declared war on Germany.

Richard Overy argues that any explanation of the outbreak of hostilities must therefore be multi-national and he shows how the war’s origins are to be found in the basic instability of the international system that was brought about by the decline of the old empires of Britain and France and the rise of ambitious new powers, Italy, Germany and Japan, keen to build new empires of their own.



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9781138124134 Book cover for 9781138835214
 
4 revised edition from Routledge (June 24, 2016)
9781138124134 | details & prices | 176 pages | List price $145.00
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3 reprint edition from Routledge (December 22, 2014)
9781138835214 | details & prices | 150 pages | 6.75 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $140.00
About: The book explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941.
Paperback
Book cover for 9781138963269 Book cover for 9781405824699
 
4 revised edition from Routledge (June 24, 2016)
9781138963269 | details & prices | 176 pages | List price $39.95
3 edition from Taylor & Francis (July 11, 2008)
9781405824699 | details & prices | 150 pages | 6.75 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $39.95

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