Given the importance afforded to the 1930s as a time of economic
and political crisis in Western society (the 'dark valley' of the
title), it is remarkable that no one has previously attempted such
an over-arching narrative history of the decade spanning events in
Europe, the Americas and the Far East. Brendon writes with the
authority and clarity of the expert, yet his lightness of touch and
descriptive talent make this book a delight. The chapters are
focused mainly on major political events of the 1930s, but also
encompass the realities of everyday life and the experiences of the
decade for ordinary people. The inclusion of cultural references
not only testify to the erudition of the author, but also provide a
well-rounded feel to the book as whole. A great book to dip into;
you'll be both informed and entertained. (Kirkus UK)
Piers Brendon's magisterial overview of the 1930s is the story of the dark dishonest decade, child of one world war and parent of the next, that determined the course of the twentieth century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan, Spain and Russia -Brendon takes us through the ten years dominated by the Great Depression and political turmoil. When Broadway, Piccadilly Circus, the Kurfurstendamm and the Ginza - neon metaphors of hope after four years of carnage - grew dim as the giants of unemployment, hardship, strife and fear took their hold. From the concentration camps of Dachau and Kolyma, the Ukraine famine and the American Dust Bowl, to the Moscow metro, the Empire State Building and the Paris Exposition, THE DARK VALLEY brings the 1930's back to life through meticuous scholarship.
Brendon examines the great leaders - Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung, Haile Selassie and countless others - not with hindsight but in the context of their age; but also, through a vivid chronicling of contemporary experience, he gives us a sense of what it was to be living then.
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