Description
Originally published in a single volume in 1972, this history of the causes and courses of the Second World War has stood the tests of time and criticism. This new edition has been revised and extended and is now divided into two companion books. Volume I, revised by its original author, Peter Calvocoressi, and containing the new introduction to both volumes, deals with the war in the West; while Volume II, revised by John Pritchard in place of the late Guy Wint, covers the Greater East Asia and Pacific conflict.
This edition takes account of the flood of official archives and personal memoirs that have been made public over the past fifteen years. These have necessitated a review to some extent a reassessment of the policies of appeasement in Europe in the thirties and of the direction and motives of Japanese policies in the same feverish decade. In particular, Peter Calvocoressi is now able to weave into his narrative of the war the astonishing and exciting story of the broken Enigma cipkers that he was not allowed to tell in the first edition.
ISBN: 9780140101027
