Books by P.M.H. Bell

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION1. On war and the causes of war.2. A Thirty Years War: The restoration of Europe.3. The case against a Thirty Years War.4. History and historians.PART TWO: THE UNDERLYING FORCES. THE ROLE OF IDEOLOGY. 5. Italian Fascism.6. German Nazism.7. Parliamentary democracy: France and Britain.8. Soviet Communism. Economic Issues and the Coming of War.9. The great depression and international relations.10. Economic Problems and the Coming of War. 11. The Role of Strategy and Armed Force.12. Armed forces, strategy and foreign policy: Italy, Germany and the Soviet Union.PART THREE: THE COMING OF WAR 1932-1941. INTRODUCTION. 13. From peace to the eve of war 1932-1937.14. War postponed 1938.15. Decisions for war 1939.15. The expanding war 1939-1940.16. Germany and the Soviet Union 1940-1941.Conclusion.Further reading.Maps.Index