A History Lesson: Road to War

Road to War is on its surface a history,but instead of just relaying facts, it goes farther. In it, the author makes some startling conclusions. A complex and ultimately controversial book, Road to War is a different look at the Second World War. It examines the years prior to the conflict through the eyes of each of the belligerent nations.  Germany, the British Empire, France, Italy, the Soviet Union, Japan, and the United States are all analyzed, their motives contemplated, and there involvement in the antebellum period explained. The reasons for the conflict, and how after the debacle that was the Versailles Treaty, war was nearly inevitable. The clash that many consider to have begun with the conflict over Danzig, and the subsequent German invasion and occupation of Poland, is shown to have had much deeper roots than a small German minority living in the Polish Corridor. The book also goes out of its way in order to debunk many myths that have been attached to it since, such as the idea of an advanced warning of Pearl Harbor. All in all, Road to War is a great book for anyone interested in the background to the Second World War.