The Origins of the Second World War: American Foreign Policy and World Politics, 1917-1941

The Origins of the Second World War: American Foreign Policy and World Politics, 1917-1941 by Arnold A. Offner. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780275847500.

America’s involvement in the Second World War has provoked more than thirty years of debate among historians, including “revisionists”, more traditional analysts, and members of the “New Left”. Arnold A. Offner’s approach most closely resembles that of a fourth group of historians, who have tried to examine American foreign policy in a multinational political context, assessing the interaction of each nation’s policies with those of other nations and drawing on foreign as well as American sources