The Change in the European Balance of Power, 1938-1939: The Path to Ruin

"Focusing on questions of grand strategy neglected by previous historians, Williamson Murray addresses the European diplomatic and political situation in the late 1930s and explains how and why the Allies allowed The Germans to husband their resources for the western offensive that was Hitler's one chance. The Germans made military and diplomatic policy in the late 1930s on an ad hoc basis, and in both the autumn of 1938 and the autumn of 1939, they came close to collapse."