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The Origins of the Second World War
''The Origins of the Second World War'' is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor, examining the causes of World War II. It was first published in 1961 by Hamish Hamilton.
==Origins==
Taylor had previously written ''The Struggle for Mastery in Europe'', which covered the period 1848 until 1918. As he later wrote in his autobiography:
I wanted to be writing something and decided that I could carry on my diplomatic history from the point where the ''Struggle for Mastery'' left off. I had, I thought, done most of the research work needed by reviewing the various books of memoirs and the volumes of German and British diplomatic documents as they came out. At that time no original sources were available: no cabinet minutes or papers, no Chiefs of Staff records, only more or less formal documents from the Foreign Office with very occasional minutes. This extraordinary paucity, as it seems now, makes my book a period piece of limited value.〔A. J. P. Taylor, ''A Personal History'' (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983), p. 233.〕
Since 1947 he had read fifteen volumes of British diplomatic documents, eight volumes of German diplomatic documents and one volume of Italian diplomatic documents, all of them covering the 1930s.〔Burk, p. 281.〕 However he did not read Adolf Hitler's ''Mein Kampf'' until after he had written the book.〔Burk, pp. 287-289.〕
Taylor was a supporter of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, one of whose arguments was that an unintended war brought about by accident could cause a nuclear war and the end of human civilisation. In Taylor's view if the Second World War could start by accident, so could a Third. He also was opposed to the idea that it was necessary for the Western powers to take a tough stand against the Soviet Union as failure to take a similar stand against Nazi Germany had led to war.〔Sisman, p. 288.〕
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