The Origins of the First and Second World Wars

by Frank McDonough

Book Overview

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This text analyses the origins of the First and Second World Wars in one single volume, drawing on a wide range of material, including original sources. In concise chapters, Frank McDonough surveys the key issues surrounding the causes of the First and Second World Wars, offers a critical survey of the conflict between historians and provides a lively selection of primary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521568617
• ISBN13: 9780521568616
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 16 to 19 years
• Grade Range: Grade 11 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

A good introduction to a vast subject.

This is a very short book on such a huge theme... The book presents the reasons for both wars as an strategic decision by the rulers of Germany. It makes a very good case, of the connection between the reasons for both wars.Due to its size it is not very detailed, but still is very interesting. The author has included excerpts of historical documents that are related to the reasoning developed in the book.It is a good book to start understanding why these two wars happened.