View source for European Diplomacy

==1920-1945==
* Adamthwaite, Anthony. ''Grandeur and Misery: France's Bid for Power in Europe, 1914-40'' (1995) 276 pp
* Bell, P.M.H. ''The Origins of the Second World War in Europe'' (3rd ed. 2007) good short survey
* Boyce, Robert. ''French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940: The Decline and Fall of a Great Power'' (1998) [https://www.amazon.com/French-Foreign-Defence-Policy-1918-1940/dp/0415150396/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206940237&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search] 
* Deist, Wilhelm et al., ed.  ''Germany and the Second World War. Vol. 1: The Build-up of German Aggression.'' (1991). 799 pp., official German history
* Duroselle, Jean-Baptiste. ''France and the Nazi Threat: The Collapse of French Diplomacy 1932-1939'' (2004) 
*  Eubank, Keith. ''The Origins of World War II'' (2004), short survey 
* Finney, Patrick ed. ''The Origins of the Second World War'' (1997) 
*  Henig, Ruth. ''The Origins of the Second World War 1933-1939'' (2nd ed 2005) short survey [https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Second-1933-1941-Lancaster-Pamphlets/dp/0415332621/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206957954&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search]
* Finney, Patrick. ''The Origins of the Second World War'' (1998), 480pp 
* Goldstein, Erik & Lukes, Igor, eds. ''The Munich crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II'', (1999) 
* Hildebrand, Klaus. ''The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich'', (1973).
* Imlay, Talbot. "Democracy and War: Political Regime, Industrial Relations, and Economic Preparations for War in France and Britain up to 1940." ''Journal of Modern History'' 2007 79(1): 1-47. Issn: 0022-2801 
* Kaiser, David E. ''Economic diplomacy and the origins of the Second World War: Germany, Britain, France and Eastern Europe, 1930-1939'' (1980) 
* Lamb, Margaret and Tarling, Nicholas.  ''From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia.'' (2001). 238 pp. 
* Leitz, Christian. ''Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1941: The Road to Global War'' (2004) [http://www.questia.com/read/104259086 online edition]
* Lukes, Igor. ''The Munich Crisis, 1938: Prelude to World War II'' (1999), 416pp [https://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0714680567/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-4827826-5463040#reader-link excerpt and text search]
* Mallett, Robert. ''Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933 - 1940'' (2003) [https://www.amazon.com/Mussolini-Origins-Second-World-1933/dp/0333748158/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791097&sr=1-2 excerpt and text search] 
* Overy, Richard. ''The Road to War'' (2nd ed. 2000) [https://www.amazon.com/Road-War-Revised-Richard-Overy/dp/014028530X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206940109&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search]
*Overy, Richard and Timothy Mason, "Debate: Germany, 'Domestic Crisis' and War in 1939"  ''Past and Present'', Number 122, February 1989. pages 200-240
*  Parker, R. A. C.  ''Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War.'' (1993). 388 pp.  
* Prazmowska, Anita J.  ''Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War.'' (2000). 278 pp.  
* Read, Anthony and Fisher, David.  ''The Deadly Embrace: Hitler, Stalin and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941.'' (1988). 675 pp.  
* Record, Jeffrey. ''The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler'' (2006) [https://www.amazon.com/Specter-Munich-Reconsidering-Lessons-Appeasing/dp/1597970395/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791247&sr=1-19 excerpt and text search]  
* Rothwell, Victor. ''War Aims in the Second World War: The War Aims of the Key Belligerents 1939-1945'' (2005) [https://www.amazon.com/War-Aims-Second-World-Belligerents/dp/0748615024/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206957954&sr=8-6 excerpt and text search]
*  Salerno, Reynolds Matthewson.  ''Vital Crossroads: Mediterranean Origins of the Second World War, 1935-1940.'' (2002). 285 pp.  
* Strang, G. Bruce ''On The Fiery March: Mussolini Prepares For War'', (2003) ISBN 0-275-97937-7. 
* Taylor, A J P ''The Origins of the Second World War'' (1961). 368pp. highhly controversial in Britain
* Tooze, Adam. "Hitler's Gamble?" ''History Today'' 2006 56(11): 22-28. Issn: 0018-2753 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]], economic causes
* Tooze, Adam. ''The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy'' (2007) influential emphasis that Hitler began to rearm in 1933 
* Watt, Donald Cameron ''How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939'', (1989), a major survey 
* Weinberg, Gerhard L. ''A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II'' (1994). Overall history of the war; strong on diplomacy of FDR and other main leaders [http://www.historyebook.org/ online at ACLS e-books]
* Weinberg, Gerhard. ''The Foreign Policy of Hitler's Germany: Starting World War II, 1937-1939'', (1980) ISBN 0-226-88511-9. 
* Young, Robert J. ''France and the Origins of the Second World War'' (1996) [https://www.amazon.com/France-Origins-Second-Twentieth-Century/dp/0312161867/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206938840&sr=8-5 excerpt and text search]

===Historiography===
* Boxer, Andrew. "French Appeasement: Andrew Boxer Considers Explanations for France's Disastrous Foreign Policy between the Wars." ''History Review'' v. 59 (2007) pp.&nbsp;45+. [http://www.questia.com/read/5024380016 online edition]
* Boyce, Robert, and Joseph A. Maiolo. ''The Origins of World War Two: The Debate Continues'' (2003) [https://www.amazon.com/Origins-World-War-Two-Continues/dp/0333945395/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195791097&sr=1-4 excerpt and text search]
* Jackson, Peter. "Post-War Politics and the Historiography of French Strategy and Diplomacy Before the Second World War," ''History Compass'' Vol. 4, August 2006 [http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1478-0542.2006.00344.x?cookieSet=1 online edition]
* Martel, Gordon, ed. ''The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered: A.J.P. Taylor and the Historians,'' (2nd ed. 1999) [https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Second-World-Reconsidered-J-P/dp/0415163250/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1206957954&sr=8-2 excerpt and text search]
* Neville, Peter. "The Origins of the Second World War Revisited." ''European History Quarterly'' 2005 35(4): 569-582. Issn: 0265-6914 Fulltext: [[Ebsco]] 
* Young, Robert J. ''French Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: A Guide to Research and Research Materials.'' (1991)



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