'Highly original and penetrating ... No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way' Sunday Telegraph.
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A lucid and sharply written work which can still provoke many decades after its publication in 1961. Taylor's thesis is that the British Empire's declaration of War in September 1939 was neither inevitable nor wise; and that the German Reich can be analysed and regarded as normal wicked country of its time in the 1930s rather than the infernal engine which it would become during the War declared upon it by the French and British Allies. Given that so much of the Western Power's self-regard comes from being the heroes of a mythologised Second World War this is a fine example of proper History.
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