International relations

International relations: Pre-war

Alexander, Martin S. The Republic in Danger: General Maurice Gamelin and the Politics of French Defence, 1933-1940. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Aster, Sidney. 1939: The Making of the Second World War. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973

Bell, P.M.H. The Origins of the Second World War in Europe. New York: Longman, 1997

Bethell, Nicholas. The War Hitler Won: The Fall of Poland, September 1939. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973

Black, Jeremy. The Second World War, volume VI: Causes and Background. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 2007

Bonnet, Georges. De Munich a la Guerre: Defense de la Paix. Paris: Plon, 1967

Boyce, Robert and E. Robertson (ed). Paths to War: New Eassays on the Origins of the Second World War. New York: St Martins Press, 1989

Buchanan, Patrick J. Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. New York: Crown, 2008

Carley, Michael Jabara. 1939: The Alliance that Never Was and the Coming of World War II. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1999

Catherwood, Christopher. The Balkans in World War II: Britain's Balkan Dilemma. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company, 2004

Cienciala, Anna. Poland and the Western Powers, 1938-1939. London: Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1968

Eubank, Keith. World War II: Roots and Causes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Finney, Patrick. Origins of the Second World War. London: Oxford University Press, 1997

Gallagher, Charles R. Vatican Secret Diplomacy: Joseph P. Hurley and Pope Pius XII. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008

Gorodetsky, G. and Chubarian (eds). The Soviet Union and the Outbreak of War, 1939-1941. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001

Haslam, Jonathan. The Soviet Union and the Struggle for Collective Security in Europe, 1933-1939. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1984

Haslam, Jonathan. The Soviet Union and the Threat from the East: Moscow, Tokyo, and the Prelude to the Pacific War, 1933 - 1941. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 1992

Henig, Ruth. The Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1941. Taylor and Francis, 2005

Hiden, John and Thomas Lane (eds). The Baltic and the Outbreak of the Second World War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Irving, David. War Path: Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939. New York: Viking, 1978

Kaiser, David E. Economic Diplomacy and the Origins of the Second World War: Germany, Britain, France, and Eastern Europe, 1930-1939. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980

Leonhard, Wolfgang. Betrayal: The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939. New York: St Martin's Press, 1989

MacDonogh, Giles. 1938: Hitler's Gamble. New York: Basic Books, 2009

Maier, Klaus A. et al. Die Errichtung der Hegemonie auf dem europaischen Kontinent. Stuttgart: Deutsche-Verlag, 1979

Maier, Klaus A. et al. Germany's Initial Conquests in Europe. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991

Mallett, Robert. Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1940. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

McDonough, Frank. The Origins of the Second World War: An International Perspective. New York: Continuum, 2011

McKercher, B.J.C. and Roch Legault. Military Planning and the Origins of the Second World War in Europe. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2001

McSherry, James E. Stalin, Hitler, and Europe, volume one: The Origins of World War II. Arlington, VA: Open Door Press, 1968

Mosley, Leonard. On Borrowed Time: How World War II Began. New York: Random House, 1969

Overy, R.J. Origins of the Second World War. New York: Longman, 1998

Overy, Richard. 1939: Countdown to War. London: Allen Lane, 2009

Pons, Silvio. Stalin and the Inevitable War, 1936-1941. London: Frank Cass Publishers, 2002

Prazmowska, Anita J. Britain, Poland and the Eastern Front, 1939. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Read, Anthony and David Fisher. The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941. New York: Norton, 1988

Rei, August. Nazi-Soviet Conspiracy and the Baltic States: Diplomatic Documents and Other Evidence. London: Boreas, 1948

Reynolds, David. From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2001

Roberts, Geoffrey. The Soviet Union and the Origins of the Second World War: Russo-German Relations and the Road to War. New York: St Martin's Press, 1995

Steiner, Zara. The Triumph of the Dark: European International History 1933-1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011

Taylor, A. J. P. The Origins of the Second World War. New York: Atheneum, 1962

Thorne, Christopher G. Approach to War, 1938-1939. New York: St Martins Press, 1967

Toynbee, Arnold and Veronica (ed). Eve of the World War, 1939. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958

Watt, Donald Cameron. How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939. New York: Pantheon, 1989

Woytak, Richard A. On the Border of War and Peace: Polish Intelligence and... New York: Columbia University Press, 1979

Wright, Jonathan. Germany and the Origins of the Second World War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan Publishing Company, 2007

Young, Robert J. France and the Origins of the Second World War. New York: St Martin's Press, 1996

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