The performance of the German economy between the Great Crash and the Second World War has been the subject of intense academic debate. The problems of economic growth were acute in inter-war Germany, and the depression of the early 1930s intensified these problems, driving many Germans towards the [...]
Hitler had hoped for a short war against Poland; instead, Britain and France declared war on Germany. This work 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 inter-war years were, at the time, perceived to be years of crisis across the world. The First World War, 'the war to end all wars', had solved nothing and its legacy was a world full of unresolved disputes and manifest ambiguities. Overy examines the Russian Revolution and its aftermath, the Wa[...]