The Soviets, the Munich Crisis, and the Coming of World War II (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521830300)

Hugh Ragsdale's analysis of East European documentation sheds new light on the Munich Crisis. If Hitler had been stopped at Munich, World War II, as we know it, could not have happened. The Crisis has been thoroughly studied in British, French, and German documents, and, consequently, we have learned that the weakness in the Western position at Munich consisted of the Anglo-French opinion that the Soviet commitment to its allies--France and Czechoslovakia--was utterly unreliable. Ragsdale's findings will contribute to a "considerable shift" of opinion.

Author: Hugh Ragsdale
ISBN-10: 0521830303
ISBN-13: 9780521830300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2004
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2004 pg. 169