The Soviets the Munich Crisis and the Coming of World War II

Hugh Ragsdale''s analysis of East European documentation sheds new light on the Munich Crisis. If Hitler had been stopped at Munich World War II as we know it could not have happened. The Crisis has been thoroughly studied in British French and German documents and consequently we have learned that the weakness in the Western position at Munich consisted of the Anglo-French opinion that the Soviet commitment to its allies--France and Czechoslovakia--was utterly unreliable. Ragsdale''s findings will contribute to a considerable shift of opinion.