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The Road to War

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781845951306

  • Length: 576  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 394g

  • RRP: £12.99

The Road to War

  • The Origins of World War II

Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Road to War is essential reading for anyone interested in this momentous period of history. Taking each major nation in turn, the book tells the story of their road to war; recapturing the concerns, anxieties and prejudices of the statesmen of the thirties.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781845951306

  • Length: 576  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 394g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • The best short work on the origins of the second world war. It is a masterpiece of compression

    Literary Review

  • Stimulating and enjoyable... essential reading

    Guardian

  • Well-written, authoritative

    Norman Stone, Sunday Times

  • The authors combine passion with understanding to make sound historical sense

    The Economist

  • It is mesmerising to read about a world careering to hell

    Independent

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About the Author

Andrew Wheatcroft

Andrew Wheatcroft is the author of many books on early modern and modern history, including The Ottomans (1995) and The Habsburgs (1996). During the writing of Infidels (2004), on which he was working for more than seventeen years, he researched in Austria, Bahrain, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Spain, Turkey, the UAE, and the USA. His previous books have been translated into over ten languages. He is based in Dumfriesshire, and is currently Director of The Centre for Publishing Studies and also teaches at the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling.

Andrew Wheatcroft

Richard Overy

Richard Overy is Honorary Research Professor of History at the University of Exeter and one of Britain's most distinguished historians. His major works include The Dictators, winner of the 2005 Wolfson Prize, The Morbid Age and The Bombing War, which won a Cundill Award for Historical Excellence in 2014. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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