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By the acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is the private, personal, utterly revealing journal of a great foreign correspondent. CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s—specifically...

One account, based on questionable scholarship, of Eugenio Pacelli, Pius XII, who was pope from 1939 to 1958. Today, still accused of failure to condemn Hitler's Final Solution, he is at the same time nearing canonization.

Details world politics from the armistice ending World War I to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Summary:\"The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941. Richard Overy argues that this was not just 'Hitler's War' but one that had its roots and origins in the decline of the old empires of Britain and France and the rise of ambitious new powers in Germany, Italy and Japan. Any explanation of the outbreak of hostilities...