TIME-LIFE WORLD WAR II SERIES: PRELUDE TO WAR

Publisher: Time Life Books

Year published: 1977

Pagination: large format, 216pp, numerous b/w illustrations

Condition: Good in pictorial boards

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One of the renowned Time-Life World War II series. This volume covers the years from the end of WWI, featuring the Russian Revolution and the establishment of a Bolshevik state. The decadence of German society in the Twenties in conjunction with Germany's desperate financial state led to the emergence of Fascism and the rise of Hitler and Mussolini. Meanwhile Stalin was forging a dictatorship in Russia and, in the East, the Japanese invaded and occupied much of China. Civil War broke out in Spain and Germany took the opportunity of a "Dress Rehearsal" for war