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Piers Brendon - Dark Valley, The: A Panorama of the 1930s - 9780712667142 - KKD0002900
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Dark Valley, The: A Panorama of the 1930s

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Description for Dark Valley, The: A Panorama of the 1930s Paperback. In this worldwide survey of the 1930s, Brendon examines the great powers and their leaders and investigates how, and how far, contemporary minds knew what they knew, and the extent to which our own view of the time is fogged by their uncertainty. He illuminates a period when the world was struggling with one crisis and hurtling towards another. Num Pages: 752 pages, 24pp b&w plates. BIC Classification: 3JJG; HBG; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 52. Weight in Grams: 962. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear

Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark, dishonest decade - child of one world war and parent of the next - that determined the course of the twentieth century.

Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan, Spain and Russia - Brendon takes us through the ten years dominated by the Great Depression and political turmoil. When Broadway, Piccadilly Circus, the Kurfurstendamm and the Ginza - neon metaphors of hope after four years of carnage - grew dim as the giants of unemployment, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Pimlico
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
752
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780712667142
SKU
KKD0002900
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Piers Brendon
Piers Brendon is the author of more than a dozen books, including biographies of Churchill and Eisenhower, the best-selling Eminent Edwardians, the highly-acclaimed The Decline and Fall of the British Empire and, most recently, Eminent Elizabethans. He also writes for television and contributes frequently to the national press. Formerly Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre, he is a ... Read more

Reviews for Dark Valley, The: A Panorama of the 1930s
A fantastic, sweeping history of the 1930s… Brendon is a superb writer, taking an exceptionally complex, dense topic and building a compelling narrative.
John Stepek
Money Week
The best history book I've read since Orlando Figes' A People's Tragedy... Wonderful and enthralling
Ruth Rendell
Daily Telegraph
Brilliant, cinematic, utterly illuminating... No other historical account ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Dark Valley, The: A Panorama of the 1930s


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