The 1923 Ruhr Crisis as a Two-front War
The 1923 Ruhr Crisis as a Two-front War

Author: John F. Flynn

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13:

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"On 11 January 1923, three years almost to the day after the Versailles Peace Treaty went into effect, French and Belgian troops marched into the Ruhr in an effort to collect forcefully the reparations which Germany had pledged in the treaty but failed to deliver. This study examines both the German reaction to the occupation as well as the conflicts within Germany which followed the occupation. In the end, the outcome of these internal conflicts shaped the final agreement with the French which ended the year of crisis"--Preface

The Ruhr Crisis, 1923-1924
The Ruhr Crisis, 1923-1924

Author: Conan Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9780198208006

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In January 1923 French and Belgian forces occupied Germany's Ruhr District and seized its prime industrial assets in lieu of unpaid reparations. This unilateral attempt to enforce the crumbling Versailles settlement precipitated a wider struggle for long-term control of Western Germany andultimately for the very survival of the Weimar Republic. The Ruhr Crisis is the first comprehensive account of a definitive and mutually self-defeating confrontation, which marked one of the great untold tragedies of European history yet, paradoxically, sowed the seeds of Franco-Germanreconciliation after 1949. It demonstrates how and why the people of the Ruhr waged a grass-roots mass campaign of passive resistance against the invaders, and evaluates the human and political price of their ultimate failure. To this end, the author exploits a broad range of local and regionalsources, many for the first time, to bring together the high politics of the crisis and intimate, often disturbing, accounts of the daily struggle in the mines, towns, and villages of the Ruhr. It is a ground-breaking contribution to the history of inter-war Germany.

Does Conquest Pay?
Does Conquest Pay?

Author: Peter Liberman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1998-08-23

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0691002428

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Can foreign invaders successfully exploit industrial economies? DOES CONQUEST PAY? demonstrates that expansion can, in fact, provide rewards to aggressor nations and suggests that the international system is more war-prone than many optimists claim.

The Second World War
The Second World War

Author: Antony Beevor

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 829

ISBN-13: 0316084077

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A masterful and comprehensive chronicle of World War II, by internationally bestselling historian Antony Beevor. Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach -- one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.