World War II : a new history /
Evan Mawdsley.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- xi, 483 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beginning in 1937 with the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, Evan Mawdsley shows how the origins of World War II lay in a conflict between the old international order and the new and then traces the globalisation of the conflict as it swept through Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.