Table of Contents

List of Illustrations. Foreword. Chapter 1. The European Paradox. Chapter 2. The Coming of War. Chapter 3. Fighting the War. Chapter 4. Ending the War: Revolutions and Peacemaking. Chapter 5. Revision and Recovery, 1919-1929. Chapter 6. The High Noon of the Dictators. Chapter 7. The Return to War. Chapter 8. Europe Eclipsed. Chapter 9. Europe: An Honourable Legacy?

About the Author

Conan Fischer is Professorial Fellow in the School of History, University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is the author of Stormtroopers: a Social, Economic and Ideological Analysis 1929-35 (1983), The German Communists and the Rise of Nazism (1991), The Rise of the Nazis (1995 & 2002) and The Ruhr Crisis 1923-1924 (2003) He is editor of The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Classes in Weimar Germany (1996) and co-editor of After the Versailles Treaty: Enforcement, Compliance, Contested Identities (with Alan Sharp, 2008). He is currently researching the history of Franco-German relations during the Great Depression (1929-32).

Reviews

"The book also contains a sufficient number of maps and illustrations, an important consideration from the point of view of students. In short, this is certain to become a standard text for the teaching of 20th-century European history. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All undergraduate collections." (Choice, 1 September 2011)