The dark valley : a panorama of the 1930s / (Record no. 129352)

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Personal name Brendon, Piers.
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Title The dark valley : a panorama of the 1930s /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Piers Brendon.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1st American ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Knopf :
-- Distributed by Random House,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2000.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xviii, 795 p. :
Other physical details ill. ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note "Originally published in Great Britain by Johnathan Cape, London, in 2000"--t.p. verso.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (p. [693]-773) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The harvest of Armageddon. --The roots of fascism. --The bane of capitalism. --Depression in America. --The triumph of Hitler. --The duce and the pope. --The decadence of France. --The slump in Britain. --Japan's imperial destiny. --Stalin's revolution. --The New Deal. --The nazis in power. --Mussolini's Abyssinian adventure. --L�eon Blum and the popular front. --The coming of the Spanish civil war. --Franco's victory. --Britain's royal state. --The rise of Japanese militarism. --The Soviet purges. --America in isolation. --The F�uhrer's path to war. --The fascist axis. --France's lean years. --Churchill, Chamberlain and appeasement. --Nippon in China. --The making of the Nazi-Soviet pact.
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Summary, etc. A magisterial, unprecedented overview of the clouded and turbulent years before World War II. It was a decade dominated worldwide by the Great Depression, by unemployment and hardship; a time when human achievement was matched by pervasive fear; when the great neon metaphors of hope that rose up after World War I--Broadway, Piccadilly Circus, the Kurf�urstendamm, the Ginza--grew dim both literally and figuratively. It was a decade during which darkness often masqueraded as light--Hitler's abolition of unemployment in Germany; Stalin's plans for progress and social equality in Russia; Mussolini's "revival" of Italy--while governments established and maintained control through brutal physical repression and the more insidious, lasting repressions of truth: sanctioned deception and relentless propaganda. It was a decade during which a diffuse economic and social crisis condensed into a massive political and military storm. Focusing individually on each of the primary staging grounds for history during the 1930s--the United States, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan, Russia and Spain--Piers Brendon traces the particular and diverse experiences of the decade. Political and economic circumstances form the framework of this breathtaking work of scholarship, but it is also the story of people: both of crucial figures--Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Roosevelt, Franco, Chiang Kai-Shek and Mussolini, to name a few--and of a secondary, but no less fascinating, cast of characters, including George Orwell, Leni Riefenstahl and Ernest Hemingway. Brendon vividly conjures the texture and tone of life in places as far-flung as Paris and Kyoto, Vienna and Shanghai, Magnitogorsk in the Ural Mountains and Norris in the Tennessee Valley. He depicts the circumstances of the Ukrainian famine and the American Dust Bowl, the Night of the Long Knives and the conquest of Ethiopia, the bombing of Guernica, the Anschluss and the great Soviet purges. He describes the clothes people wore, the food they ate, the books and newspapers they read, the work they did or lacked, the beliefs they held, the pleasures they enjoyed, the sufferings they endured. The public sphere and the personal realm, the collective lives of nations and the details of individual lives--each element of the book contributes to its brilliant elucidation of the ways in which, during the 1930s, political power obscured knowledge, economic catastrophe darkened understanding and the foundation was laid for the most profound and far-reaching crisis of modern times. The Dark Valley is a revelation of the ten years that set the course for the remainder of the twentieth century.--Publisher description.
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Geographic name Europe
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 1918-1945.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element World politics
Chronological subdivision 1933-1945.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element National socialism.
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Geographic name Japan
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 1926-1945.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Soviet Union
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision 1925-1953.
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Main entry heading Brendon, Piers.
Title Dark valley : a panorama of the 1930s.
Edition 1st American ed.
Place, publisher, and date of publication New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000
Record control number (OCoLC)647334592
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