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A 4 page review and analysis of A.J.P. Taylor’s work “Origins of the Second World War.” Bibliography lists 1 additional source.
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scholars and historians. It is a war that has been studied from many different angles or perspectives and a war that still creates a lot of scholarly work which attempts
to understand various aspects of the war, as well as the war in general. One book, written back in the beginning of the 1960s, is A.J.P. Taylors "Origins of the
Second World War." This particular book met with a great deal of negative criticism, yet it is also a book that made many stop and truly examine how they saw
the war and its origins. The following paper examines and analyzes Taylors work. Origins of the Second World War As mentioned, this particular book received a great deal
of negative attention when it first came out. One of the reasons was that Taylor made it quite clear that if we really want to understand the war and how
it came about we must stop simply assuming that Hitler was the entire problem. By making Hitler the most evil being to ever exist much of what truly involved WWII
is lost or merely tossed aside in favor of Hitlers power and evil intent. According to one particular critic, who discusses Taylors thesis, Taylor "argued war not unique, not
caused by rival ideologies of fascism and communism and liberalism, nor good great ideals vs. bad evil Hitler,nor any blueprint for world conquest by Hitler" (The Taylor Thesis, 2004). This
author indicates that Taylor was arguing that it was a series of blunders, a focus on opportunism and the need for a traditional balancing of power (The Taylor Thesis, 2004).
According to this critic Taylor argues that "human blunders shape history more than human wickedness" (The Taylor Thesis, 2004). Through such information it becomes clear that what Taylor was
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