1939

A People's History of the Coming of World War II

New Hardback Illustrated

Postscript summary

The contemporary diaries, memoirs and newspaper reports examined for this social history reveal the day-to-day concerns of ordinary citizens and their attitude to their leaders in the period leading up to war. Reviewing also how the decisions of politicians moved inexorably towards conflict, the study highlights that while the population in both Britain and Germany may have broadly supported their governments’ policies there was little appetite for conflict.

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