The dark valley : a panorama of the 1930s / Piers Brendon
2000, 1st edition. London : Jonathan Cape. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #442391
ISBN: 0224060384
Physical description: xviii, 701 pages : illustrations, plates ; 24 cm. 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 of 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 -- Conclusion. Subjects: Mussolini, Benito 1883-1945. Hitler, Adolf 1889-1945. World politics 1933-1945. History, Modern 20th century.
Price: €12.95