'I SAW MY ENEMIES AT MUNICH,' SNARLED HITLER. 'THEY ARE WORMS.' BUT, TO THE DICTATOR'S SURPRISE, THE WORMS WERE ABOUT TO TURN This lucid primer to the run-up to war shows that Hitler didn't hatch plans but grabbed opportunities, says Nigel Jones

The Sunday Telegraph London | August 23, 2009| | Copyright

1939: Countdown to War

By Richard Overy

ALLEN LANE/PENGUIN PRESS, pounds 12.99, 176 pp

Professor Richard Overy is an enviably productive - as well as an enviably expert - fellow. Just a few short weeks after publishing The Morbid Age, a thought-provoking major study of pacifism and patriotism in Britain between the world wars, here he is again with a briefer but equally thoughtful account of the run-up to the Second World War itself, published for the 70th anniversary of the conflict's outbreak on September 3.

The remnants of a myth - increasingly invalidated by the historical record - still ...

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