Paul Jankowski

All Against All (eBook, ePUB)

The Long Winter of 1933 and the Origins of the Second World War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"This crisply written, well-documented account... examines diplomatic, military, political and economic developments in a crucial period leading up to WWII" (Publishers Weekly) All Against Allis the story of how a single winter, between November 1932 and April 1933, put the postwar world back on the path to global conflict. Historian Paul Jankowski reveals how domestic passions within various nations colluded to drive their governments towards a war few of them wanted and none of them could control. Over these six months, collective delusions took hold in both liberal and authoritarian regimes. Hitler came to power; Japan invaded Jehol and left the League of Nations; Mussolini looked towards Africa; Roosevelt was elected; France changed governments three times; and the victors of the Great War fell out acrimoniously over war debts, arms, currency, tariffs, and Germany. A world economic conference offered hope, only to collapse when the US went its own way. All Against Allreconstructs a series of seemingly disparate happenings whose connections can only be appraised in retrospect. As he weaves these stories together, Jankowski offers a cautionary tale for our times. While we do not know for certain where today's crises will take us, we do know that those of the 1930s culminated in the Second World War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 477
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780062433534
• Artikelnr.: 57213578

Autorenporträt

Paul Jankowski is the Ray Ginger Professor of History at Brandeis University. He grew up in Geneva, New York, and Paris, and attended international schools before taking undergraduate and graduate degrees at Balliol College, Oxford. He is the author of several books, including most recently Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War. He currently works on the disintegration of the world order in the era between the world wars, and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.