Description
Product ID: | 9780140136722 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Origins of the Second World War |
Authors: | Author: Professor A J P Taylor |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | European history, European history, Second World War, Second World War, Europe |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, the author argues provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into it partly by accident, aided by the shortcomings of others. A.J.P. Taylor''s bestselling The Origins of the Second World War overturns popular myths about the outbreak of war. One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into it partly by accident, aided by the shortcomings of others. ''Taylor''s most perfect work of art, a miracle of proportion, language and insight'' ''A dazzling exercise in revisionism which summed up Taylor''s paradoxical, provocative and inventive approach to history'' ''Taylor was a lifelong dissenter ... at his best - as in The Origins of the Second World War ... he shifted the ground of major debates'' ''No historian of the past century has been more accessible'' ''An almost faultless masterpiece'' ''Highly original and penetrating ... No one who has digested this enthralling work will ever be able to look at the period again in quite the same way'' A.J.P. Taylor (1906-90) was one of the most controversial historians of the twentieth century. He served as a lecturer at the Universities of Manchester, Oxford, and London. |
Imprint Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 1991-10-31 |