Between Two Fires: Europe's Path in the 1930s

"An evocative re-creation of the European political climate of the 1930s . . . Large does a fine job of connecting these events." —Kirkus Reviews

Publishers Weekly

The collapse of Serge Stavisky's financial empire in France leads off this volume, which includes analyses of Austria's suppressed socialist uprising and Britain's little-known Jarrow Crusade in 1935. ``Large . . . illuminates the final years of the interwar period through eight dramatic episodes, each of key significance to the history of 20th-century Europe,'' said PW. Photos. (May)

David Clay Large is professor of history at Montana State University and the author of Berlin (2000) and Where Ghosts Walked: Munich’s Road to the Third Reich (1997).