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Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 They make a wilderness … 1918–20; Chapter 2 Revolution, 1917–21; Chapter 3 Mediterranean problems, 1919–23; Chapter 4 Reparations, 1919–25; Chapter 5 Hope, 1924; Chapter 6 Stability, 1925–9; Chapter 7 The Great Depression begins, 1929–31; Chapter 8 The Great Depression and British politics, 1929–32; Chapter 9 The Nazi rise to power, 1923–33; Chapter 10 Japan, 1921–33; Chapter 11 A time of conferences, 1925–33; Chapter 12 Setting the scene, 1933–4; Chapter 13 The end of the old order, 1935; Chapter 14 Abyssinia, 1935–6; Chapter 15 The Rhineland, 1936; Chapter 16 Spain and the triumph of ideology, 1936–9; Chapter 17 Problems of foreign policy, 1936–8; Chapter 18 Italy, Germany and Austria, 1937–8; Chapter 19 Czechoslovakia, 1938; Chapter 20 Aftermath to Munich, 1938–9; Chapter 21 The road to war, March–September 1939; Chapter 22 Reflections;