Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 560
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Trim: 7 x 10
978-1-5381-7223-0 • Hardback • September 2023 • $120.00 • (£92.00)
978-1-5381-7224-7 • Paperback • September 2023 • $43.00 • (£33.00)
978-1-5381-7225-4 • eBook • September 2023 • $41.00 • (£32.00) (coming soon)
Teddy Uldricks, PhD, has taught college-level courses on the Second World War for over forty years. He is an Emeritus Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Asheville. Dr. Uldricks now teaches a variety of courses on World War II at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has written extensively on Russia and the origins of the Second World War, including an earlier book, Diplomacy and Ideology: The Origins of Soviet Foreign Relations. He is widely regarded as a leading authority on Soviet foreign affairs in the interwar years. His current research project focuses on the appeasement of aggressors in the 1930s as a global phenomenon.
An unrivalled mastery of vast sources and literature, [this book] culminates in the first genuinely comprehensive history of the war, encompassing its political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural aspects, while not neglecting the military side. Uldricks’s admirably even-handed handling of the material, is further enhanced by the equal attention he pays to the differing theatres of the war, brilliantly demonstrating their interdependence.
— Gabriel Gorodetsky, Prof. Emeritus, Tel Aviv University and Quondam fellow, All Souls College, Oxford
"This is an excellent work: thorough, balanced, swathed in short- and long-term perspective, carefully balanced explanations, and easy to read. The general reader and students will have a masterpiece in hand.”
— Samuel Oppenheim, professor of History, Rhode Island College