Origins of the Second World War, The

"In The Origins of the Second World War, Joachim Remak recreates the months and years before the war as seen through the eyes of the men who lived them.  We meet Adolf Hitler silently watching an unresponsive crowd in Berlin and concluding the time is not yet ripe for war.  We hear Neville Chamberlain explaining to his nation why he signed the Munich Pact.  We read the secret dispatches to Japan's Washington embassy in November 1941 alerting it to the coming war." ~excerpt from the back cover of The Origins of the Second World War