The Washington Post, August 20th, 1989
AUGUST '39: The Last Four Weeks of Peace By Stephen Howarth Mercury House. 304 pp. $18.95 (forthcoming in September) BETRAYAL: The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 By Wolfgang Leonhard Translated by Richard D. Bosley St. Martins. 215 pp. $19.95 WITH THE bicentennial of the French Revolution barely out of the way, Sept. 1 will mark the 50th anniversary of the German invasion of Poland, the start of World War II. Two interesting new books deal with events in August 1939, the fateful month just before. Stephen Howarth, a skillful English writer of popular histories, reconstructs the month's events with...
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