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1939: The Alliance That

Never Was and the

Coming of World War II

By Michael Jabara Carley

Ivan R. Dee. 321 pp. $28.95

Reviewed by Adam B. Ulam

The passage of 60 years has not stilled the disputes revolving around the momentous events of the summer of 1939. Could the war have been avoided had Britain and France dealt more forthrightly with the Soviet Union, thus forging an alliance of the three states against Germany? Was it Stalin's (not unjustified) conviction of the Western Powers' insincerity and double game that led him to strike his bargain with Hitler, thus unleashing upon the world ...

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