
Life in Britain and Germany on the Road to War
Keeping an Eye on Hitler
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
In December 1922, the distinguished foreign correspondent Leonard Spray warned Britain to 'keep your eye on Hitler'. The carnage of the so-called 'war to end all wars' had left 900, 000 British servicemen dead, and more than 2 million suffering physical and psychological wounds, but there was hope. The vanquished had been left with no military capacity to wage another war, and with a huge debt to pay to the victors. The Treaty of Versailles had surely made it impossible for the world to ever again be threatened by Germany? Safe in that knowledge, Britain now had her eye firmly set on new challenges. The cost of the war had already triggered her decline as the world's greatest economic power. The Great Depression that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929 now saw Britain riven by unemployment and poverty. Seven General Elections between 1918 and 1935 resulted in mostly minority and coalition governments, bringing further uncertainty. And all the time, an Austrian ex-corporal by the name of Adolf Hitler was on the rampage, first with his 'swashbuckling gangs' in Bavaria, and then on an inexorable march to power throughout the rest of Germany and beyond. Life in Britain and Germany on the Road to War tells the story of one of the most eventful, tumultuous and heart-breaking periods in history. The twenty-one years that separated the First and Second World Wars and that eventually saw everyone's eyes firmly fixed on Hitler.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Prelude: So, Keep Your Eye on Hitler
- Chapter 1 Uninhibited by Convention
- Chapter 2 A Great Wave of Reaction
- Chapter 3 A New and Stronger Spirit?
- Chapter 20 A Period of Danger More Acute…
- Chapter 21 Adolf Hitler Stepped In, Didn’t He?
- Bibliography
- Plates