At the moment I’m re-reading AJP Taylor’s classic The Origins of the Second World War. In his uniquely lucid and forensic style, Taylor highlighted how the Allies effectively caused the Second World War in how they ended the first. Instead of being the harbinger of peace, the Treaty of Versailles became the harbinger of a far greater and more destructive global conflict.
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