| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

From Versailles to Pearl Harbor: The Origins of the Second World War in Europe and Asia. By Margaret Lamb and Nicholas Tarling. (New York: Palgrave, 2001. xvi, 238 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-333-73839-X. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-333-73840-3.)

Historians have often noted that World War I, because so many earth-shattering consequences flowed therefrom, constitutes the most important event of the twentieth century. It is probably more accurate to say that World War I, followed by the failure of the peace structure of the 1920s and 1930s, led directly to World War II; thus the two wars cannot be separated in any assessment of the century's preeminent developments. The authors of this unoriginal but eminently readable study would surely agree with that proposition. . . .

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