文档介绍：Conjuring Hitler
How Britain and America
Made the Third Reich
Guido o Preparata
Pluto P Press
LONDON • ANN ARBOR, MI
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First published 2005 by Pluto Press
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Contents
List of Figures ix
A Chronology of Germany’s Undoing, 1900–45 xi
Preface xiv
1. Introductory: The Eurasian Embrace. Laying Siege to Germany
with World War I, 1900–18 1
The Second Reich: The Tragedy of an Imperial Upstart 1
The Heartland, the Crescent and the Nightmare of British
Geopolitics 8
The Blood of the Romanovs and the Encirclement of Germany 15
The ‘Useful Idiots’ of Sarajevo 20
Besieging Germany 22
Conjuring Lenin 27
The Last Days of America: from Republic to Truculent Empire 38
2. The Veblenian Prophecy. From the Councils to Versailles
by Way of Russian Fratricide, 1919–20 42
The Impossible Revolution 42
Inducting Hitler into the Mother Lodge 57
The Allied Betrayal of the Russian Whites 60
The Peace Treaty That Was Too Harsh 74
Dreaming of Hitler and Deciphering Versailles 80
3. The Meltdown and the Geopolitical Correctness