Facing the Second World War: Strategy, Politics, and Economics in Britain and France 1938-1940

by Talbot C. Imlay

This is a wide-ranging study of how the British were more successful in managing the strains of modern industrial war than the French. The book addresses such current historical debates as the nature of the political Right and Left in Europe during the 1930s, the extent of rearmament and economic mobilization, and the causes of France's defeat in 1940.

404 pages, Hardcover

First published August 7, 2003