12. Collapse: A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-1941

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Wed, 24 June

12. Collapse: A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-1941

Guildhall

Jonathan Fennell

Between 1931 and 1949, a series of crises broke out that threatened collective security, world order and the internal cohesion of states across the globe. At the heart of these crises was a world war that shook the foundations of global power. Through exciting new sources from over 50 archives across the world, Professor Jonathan Fennell examines the first part of this “long war”, from 1931-1942, and explores what it really meant to live through this violent time. Using an innovative approach which explores the personal alongside the political, the global alongside the local, he shows how a world that many considered civilised collapsed into barbarity.