ABSTRACT

This title was first published in 2000:  A.J.P. Taylor (1906-90), one of the greatest historians of the twentieth century, initially established his reputation by his work in diplomatic history. This included his magisterial The Struggle for Mastery in Europe, 1848-1918 (1954) and The Origins of the Second World War (1961), both of which have remained in print. This collection brings together a rich selection of his essays and reviews in international history, only one of which (on Trieste) has been reprinted before. The collection includes many examples of his most lively writing, often controversial, yet usually full of insight.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

part I|83 pages

Nineteenth Century

chapter One|3 pages

A World Restored, 1812–22

chapter Two|3 pages

The Crimean War: A Triumph of Muddle

chapter Five|26 pages

International Relations, 1870–98

chapter Six|4 pages

The Western Question

part II|60 pages

Early Twentieth Century

chapter Eight|3 pages

Joseph Chamberlain

chapter Ten|3 pages

Farce before Tragedy: Agadir, 1911

chapter Eleven|2 pages

Admiral Fisher: A Great Man?

chapter Twelve|2 pages

The Last Tsars

chapter Thirteen|3 pages

Lament for Imperial Vienna

chapter Fourteen|8 pages

War by Time-Table

chapter Fifteen|12 pages

War Weariness and Peace Overtures

chapter Sixteen|8 pages

Lenin: October and After

part III|81 pages

Interwar Years

chapter Seventeen|7 pages

The Secrets of Diplomacy

chapter Eighteen|3 pages

The Supreme Council, 1919

chapter Nineteen|3 pages

The Hole in the Tub

chapter Twenty|5 pages

The Groundwork of History

chapter Twenty-One|6 pages

German Policy, 1937–38

chapter Twenty-Two|3 pages

Appeasement: German Version

chapter Twenty-Three|3 pages

More Light on Munich

chapter Twenty-Four|7 pages

1938: A German Version

chapter Twenty-Five|4 pages

Dragons’ Teeth

chapter Twenty-Six|1 pages

Documents

chapter Twenty-Seven|2 pages

The Morning After

chapter Twenty-Eight|3 pages

Franco’s Friends

chapter Twenty-Nine|3 pages

The Moment of Decision

chapter Thirty|2 pages

The Phoney War

chapter Thirty-One|3 pages

Raw Meat

chapter Thirty-Two|2 pages

After Versailles

chapter Thirty-Three|4 pages

Collapse of Versailles: The Moment of Crisis

chapter Thirty-Four|3 pages

How Hitler Went to War: The German Record

chapter Thirty-Five|2 pages

Feebler and Feebler

chapter Thirty-Six|3 pages

Out of the Diplomatic Bag

chapter Thirty-Seven|2 pages

Foreign Relations

chapter Thirty-Eight|2 pages

Lloyd George in Action

chapter Thirty-Nine|1 pages

Some Awkward Questions

chapter Forty|2 pages

Conflict at Versailles – and After

chapter Forty-One|3 pages

Germany’s Breakthrough

part IV|141 pages

From the Prelude of the Second World War to Cold War

chapter Forty-Two|2 pages

American Foreign Policy

chapter Forty-Three|3 pages

Roosevelt and the War

chapter Forty-Four|3 pages

The Revision of Treaties: 1830 and 1938

chapter Forty-Five|4 pages

Munich Examined: Mr Wheeler-Bennett’s History

chapter Forty-Six|1 pages

Munich Again

chapter Forty-Seven|3 pages

How the War Began: An Essay in Diplomatic History

chapter Forty-Eight|2 pages

Diplomatic Supplement

chapter Forty-Nine|4 pages

Old Tunes

chapter Fifty|3 pages

After Appeasement

chapter Fifty-Two|4 pages

Soviet Policy and Czechoslovakia

chapter Fifty-Three|5 pages

The Myths of Munich

chapter Fifty-Four|3 pages

Europe, 1939: The Negotiations with Russia

chapter Fifty-Five|9 pages

The False Alliance

chapter Fifty-Six|7 pages

The Outbreak of War

chapter Fifty-Seven|14 pages

1939 Revisited

chapter Fifty-Eight|3 pages

Old Foreign Office Tie

chapter Fifty-Nine|4 pages

How Germany Lost the War

chapter Sixty|3 pages

Potsdam: The Seeds of Cold War

chapter Sixty-One|23 pages

Trieste

chapter Sixty-Two|9 pages

Czechoslovakia Today (July 1946)

chapter Sixty-Three|4 pages

German Riddles

chapter Sixty-Four|2 pages

Heartland

chapter Sixty-Five|7 pages

No Sanctity of Contract between Nations?

chapter Sixty-Six|3 pages

How Near is World War III? Dangers of a Power Balance

chapter Sixty-Seven|10 pages

War and Peace