Cry Havoc

By Joseph Maiolo,

Book cover of Cry Havoc: How the Arms Race Drove the World to War, 1931-1941

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Did the arms race of the 1930s cause the Second World War? In Cry Havoc , historian Joseph Maiolo shows, in rich and fascinating detail, how the deadly game of the arms race was played out in the decade prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. In this…

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1 author picked Cry Havoc as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

British policy can only be fully understood in the context of what other powers were doing, and Joe Maiolo’s comprehensive study of the arms race is the best place to start. I have admired his work since I examined his doctoral thesis, but in this book, based on sources in five languages, he takes the international history of the period to a new level.

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