Table of Contents

PART I: Background 1. Explaining the Second World War PART II: Analysis 2. The international crisis 3. Economic and imperial rivalry 4. Armaments and domestic politics 5. War over Poland 6. From European to world war PART III: Assessment 7. Hitler’s war? PART IV: Documents

About the Author

Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. He has authored and edited more than thirty books on the European dictators, the Second World War and the history of air power.