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ISBN: 9780712667142 - The Dark Valley
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The Dark Valley

A Panorama of the 1930s

Piers Brendon

ISBN: 9780712667142
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Vintage
Edition: New edition


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In this worldwide survey of the 1930s, Brendon examines the great powers and their leaders and investigates how, and how far, contemporary minds knew what they knew, and the extent to which our own view of the time is fogged by their uncertainty. He illuminates a period when the world was struggling with one crisis and hurtling towards another.

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This overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade, child of one world war and parent of the next, that determined the course of the 20th century. The book examines the great powers - USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan, Spain and Russia - and takes the reader through ten years dominated by the Great Depression and political turmoil, when promises of hope grew dim as unemployment, hardship, strife and fear took over. The leaders - Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung, and others - are examined, not in hindsight, but in the context of their age. The book also looks at how people used to live, what they wore, what food they ate and the suffering they endured.
 
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