The Dark Valley by Piers Brendon
A Panorama of the 1930s
A sweeping narrative of the 1930s tracing how the Great Depression destabilized societies worldwide, enabling authoritarian regimes in Germany, Italy, Japan, and the Soviet Union while testing the resilience of democracies in the United States, Britain, and France. Through vivid portraits of leaders and ordinary people, it examines economic collapse, propaganda, repression, and cultural ferment—from the Spanish Civil War and Stalin's purges to appeasement and the New Deal—showing how fear, ideology, and miscalculation led the world from crisis to the brink of global war.
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- Published
- 2000
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 700-800 pages
- Original Language
- English
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