An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history. This text analyses the origins of the First and Second World Wars in one single volume, drawing on a wide range of material, including original sources. In concise chapters, Frank McDonough surveys the key issues surrounding the causes of the First and Second World Wars, offers a critical survey of the conflict between historians and provides a lively selection of primary documents on major issues. The result is a unique perspective on the origins of the two most devastating military conflicts in world history.

 

This book is part of a book series called Cambridge Perspectives in History .

There are 130 pages in this book. This book was published 1997 by Cambridge University Press .

David Smith has been writing history books for adults and children for over thirty years. He has recently written an educational series on the Holocaust and several books on different aspects of the contemporary Middle East. He is also a novelist.

This book has the following chapters: 1. The origins of the First World War, 1871-1914; 2. The historians and the origins of the First World War; 3. The origins of the Second World War: 1 War and the fragile peace, 1914-38; 4. The origins of the Second World War: 2 From peace to global war, 1933-41; 5. The historians and the origins of the Second World War.