From Versailles to Pearl Harbor : The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia

In 1941 the European war became a world war. This book tackles that process in its economic, political and ideological dimensions.

Margaret Lamb and Nicholas Tarling explore the significance of the Asian factor and the importance of East Asia in the making of the war in Europe and the transformation of the European war of 1939 into the world war of 1941.

This Asian factor has often been neglected, but the policies of all the major powers were affected by their world wide interests.

The global approach not only helps in explaining the causes of the war, it also helps to explain its nature and its outcome.