The Economist (US), September 2nd, 1989
Hitler's war
AUTHORS relish anniversaries, as moths relist light. Among many books published to mark the 50th anniversary of Nazi Germany's attack on Poland that triggered off six years of world war, a handful deserve otice. Richard Overy has written, "with Andrew Wheatcroft", THE ROAD TO WAR (1), a companion volume to a big television series and an attempt at revisionist history. In eight chapters they review the diplomatic history of the 1920s and 1930s from the angle of eight different powers in turn, all but the first of them then classed as "great": Poland, Germany, Britain, France, It...
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