Table of Contents

List of maps; Preface and acknowledgments; 1. Introduction 1919-1935; 2. 1935: rearmament and Abyssinia; 3. 1936: the year of three kings; 4. 1937: calm before the storm; 5. 1938: Anschluss; 6. 1938: Munich; 7. 1938-39: the end of peace; 8. Afterwords; Appendices; Dramatis personae; Notes and references; Selected bibliography; Index.

About the Author

R.J.Q. Adams is Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is the author of Arms and the Wizard: Lloyd George and the Ministry of Munitions, 1915-16 and The Conscription Controversy in Great Britain, 1900-18 and editor of The Great War, 1914-18: Essays on the Military, Political and Social History of the First World War, as well as many articles, reviews, and papers.