The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s
- ISBN-10
- 0224060384
- ISBN-13
- 9780224060387
- Pages
- 701
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Author
- Piers Brendon
Description
The author offers an overview of the 1930s, a story of the dark, dishonset decade that determined the course of the 20th century. Dealing individually with each of the period's great powers - the USA, Germany, Italy, France, Britain, Japan and Russia - the reader is taken through ten years dominated by the Great Depression and political turmoil, when Broadway, Piccadilly Circus, the Kurfurstendamm and the Ginza - neon metaphors of hope and modernity after four years of carnage - grew dim as the giants of unemployment, hardship, strife and fear took their hold.
