1st Edition

Revival: Between the Wars (1948)

230 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

In Between The Wars Mr Somervell examines those twenty-one years of uneasy peace which elapsed between the First and Second World Wars, and analyses the gradual deterioration in international relations which marked the period. The victorious, all-powerful Allies of 1919, by founding the League of Nations with its prospects of open diplomacy and its machinery for negotiation, hoped to set up... Read more

Preface I Paris II The Uphill Road, 1920-29 III National Histories IV The Downward Slope, 1930-39 V The Far East Appendix Bibliography Index

Biography

David Churchill Somervell (16 July 1885 – 17 January 1965) was an English historian and teacher. He taught at three well-known English public schools – Repton, Tonbridge and Benenden – and was the author of several volumes of history and the editor of well-regarded abridgements of other historians' works.