Sidney Aster

3505. 1939 The Making of the Second World War, by Sidney Aster (read 30 Nov 2001) This is a 1973 book detailing, mainly from a British viewpoint, the events from Mar 15, 1939, to Sept 3, 1939. The account of the final weeks before the war started are fascinating and well-told herein. But I realized that I had quite recently been over this same ground: I read How War Came The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939, by Donald Cameron Watt on
Aug 24, 2000. That is a better book than is this.… (more)