Product Description: More than 60 years have passed since the outbreak of the most catastrophic conflict the world has known: 30 million people dead and unbelievable devastation. In the 3rd edition of this popular volume, Keith Eubank seeks answers to the questions that have plagued us: Why, after the ghastly ordeal of World War I did Western powers undervalue the threat from Hitler? Why was there so much reluctance on the part of Britain and France to confront Germany? Why had Germany been permitted to rearm and to occupy independent nations without a struggle? What was the policy of appeasement? Why did the appeasers fail to perceive Hitler's intentions? In addition to a re-examination of these questions and an effort to dispel the enduring myths surrounding the history of this era, Keith Eubank has enhanced this new edition by including an analysis of the motivations and actions of central figures such as Neville Chamberlain and Joseph Stalin as well as a re-assessment of Soviet policies in the light of recent research that reveals their leaders as far less altruistic than some have imagined...read more

Product Description: Based on recently released materials from the John F. Kennedy Library, US Department of State, and the former Soviet Union, this text examines the Cuban missile crisis which began with the discovery of nuclear ballistic missiles installed by the Soviet Union in Cuba, in support of Fidel Castro...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Topics of focus include the problem of historical context, the tension between traditional and revisionist viewpoints, the question of Allied appeasement, the failure of intelligence-gathering, the Soviet role, and the place of the Holocaust in accounts of the causes of World War II...read more

Product Description: As the first in a series of summit conferences between American presidents and Soviet rulers, the Teheran Conference altered forever the way American presidents conduct foreign policy. At a time when yet another summit conference appears to be in the offing, SUMMIT AT TEHERAN is a timely reminder of the issues that are involved...read more

Product Description: Eubank offers a look at a diplomatic servant of France's Third Republic, Paul Cambon, whose insight into international affairs was penetrating. Cambon tells his story, and reflects on the world as he saw it.

Softcover book from 1973 with a selection of the thousands of documents relating to the background of WWII. Describing the events that brought to Europe a second terrible war, they also offer a sampling of the primary source material historians used to write the history of the origins of the war.