Rest of Europe (w/o USSR)

After the German invasion, which had put a stop to the ongoing ethnic cleansing in Poland, France and England declared war on Germany. Several peace offers by the German government – including a proposed withdrawal of its forces from Polish territory – were rejected; in late 1939, France tried to provoke Berlin with small-scale incursions across the German border. After all attempts at negotiation had failed, the war escalated.

Churchill’s War: Triumph in Adversity (Vol. II), by David Irving. London: Focal Point, 2001. Hardcover. 1060 pages. Photographs. Appendices. Source references. Index. (Available from the IHR for $50, plus shipping.) It has been fourteen years since the publication of the first volume of David Irving’s three-part biography of Britain’s legendary …

It has often been said that Hitler's greatest mistakes were his decisions to go to war against the Soviet Union and the United States. Whatever the truth may be, it's worth noting his own detailed justifications for these grave decisions. On Thursday afternoon, 11 December 1941, four days after the …

Der Zweite Weltkrieg: Ursachen und Anlass [The Second World War: Origins And Cause] by Georg Franz-Willing. Leoni am Starnberger See: Druffel Verlag, 1979, 310pp, DM 29.50, ISBN 3-8061-0960-5. It is no secret that the bombardment of Germans has merely changed in form and intensity since the 1940s. Moscow and Washington …

During my career as a German diplomat, I had three superiors. The first was Alfred Rosenberg, head of the Foreign Political Office of the National Socialist Party. The next was Foreign Minister Freiherr Konstatin von Neurath, an "old school" conservative. The last was Joachim von Ribbentrop. After the war these …

Czechoslovakia's Role in Soviet Strategy, by Josef Kalvoda, University Press of America, Pb, 382pp, $9.75. The author, a professional historian, was born in Czechoslovakia in 1923, left the CSR in 1948, has been living in the USA since 1951 and presently teaches at St. Joseph's College in West Hartford, Conn. …