The dark valley
Subtitle: a panorama of the 1930s
By: Piers Brendon.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 795
Subjects: World politics -- 1933-1945; National socialism; Europe -- History -- 1918-1945; Japan -- History -- 1926-1945; Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Approach.  Harvest of Armageddon; title: Roots of fascism; title: Bane of capitalism.  Into the abyss.  Depression in America; title: Triumph of Hitler; title: Duce and the Pope; title: Decadence of France; title: Slump in Britain; title: Japan's imperial destiny; title: Stalin's revolution; title: New deal; title: Nazis in power; title: Mussolini's Abyssinian adventure; title: Léon Blum and the popular front.  Canyon.  Coming of the Spanish Civil War; title: Franco's victory.  Deepening gloom.  Britain's royal state; title: Rise of Japanese militarism; title: Soviet purges; title: America in isolation; title: Führer's path to war; title: Fascist axis; title: France's lean years; title: Churchill, Chamberlain and appeasement; title: Nippon in China; title: Making of the Nazi-Soviet pact.  Chasm.