Between Two Fires

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Between Two Fires
Europe's Path in the 1930s Dávid Clay Large
Auden called it the "low dishonest decade"; it was a "no man's land between two fires," and in this book 1930s Europe comes to life in all its fear, corruption, violence, and trampled ideals. Vivid narrative portraits of events in Francé, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union combine to show Europe on the path to war.
These fateful events rangé from the "Sasha" Stavisky scandal, which fragmented French society, to Austria's bloody civil war, which paved the way for the Germán Anschluss, as well as the "night of the long knives," the vicíous purge of rebellious SA brownshirts by Hitler's SS. Dávid Clay Large alsó depicts Mussolini's brutal invasion of Ethiopia, the destruction of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, and Stalin's assault on truth through the show trials of his Great Purge. Finally, in Munich, thebook's characters and themes come tógether on the threshold of World War... Tovább

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Between Two Fires
Europe's Path in the 1930s Dávid Clay Large
Auden called it the "low dishonest decade"; it was a "no man's land between two fires," and in this book 1930s Europe comes to life in all its fear, corruption, violence, and trampled ideals. Vivid narrative portraits of events in Francé, Austria, Germany, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union combine to show Europe on the path to war.
These fateful events rangé from the "Sasha" Stavisky scandal, which fragmented French society, to Austria's bloody civil war, which paved the way for the Germán Anschluss, as well as the "night of the long knives," the vicíous purge of rebellious SA brownshirts by Hitler's SS. Dávid Clay Large alsó depicts Mussolini's brutal invasion of Ethiopia, the destruction of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, and Stalin's assault on truth through the show trials of his Great Purge. Finally, in Munich, thebook's characters and themes come tógether on the threshold of World War II.
"Dávid Clay Large knows how to write .He has a sense of drama equal to that of another popular histórián, William Manchester "
—Frank J. Prial, New York Times Book Review
"An evocative re-creation of the European political climate of the 1930s Large does a fine job of connecting these events." —Kirkus Reviews
"Large has succeeded in 'putting the "story" back into history' for these dreadful years [He includes] many interesting details in his descriptions of the main events." —Choice
Dávid Clay Large is professor of history at Montana State University. Vissza