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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year 2021"
"A Telegraph Best Book of the Year 2021"
"Books of this quality and significance are rare. Haslam has mined the archives of all the main players to produce an excellent, game-changing thesis that is as convincing as it is original."
---Saul David, The Times"It may be a cliché to say this is a book every intelligent person ought to read, but it really is."
---Simon Heffer, The Telegraph"Anyone interested in global tensions in the interwar period will learn much from the latest book of Jonathan Haslam. . . . He draws on a lifetime of expertise on the Soviet Union and Russian foreign policy to explain how fear of communism permeated international relations after 1917."
---Tony Barber, Financial Times"
Drawing on sources in English, French, Russian, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish from archives across Europe (and beyond), The Spectre of War is full of fascinating stories that offer a unique glimpse into the tormented world on the eve of the Second World War. Elegantly crafted, it offers the reader the knowledge of a scholar who has worked in the field for decades.
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---David Motadel, Times Literary Supplement"2021’s most impressive work of history pulls together hidden threads to show how fear of Bolshevism poisoned international relations between the wars." * A Telegraph Best Book of the Year *
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One of the year’s most impressive pieces of research.
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---Simon Heffer, A Telegraph Best New History Book
