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The Dark Valley: A Panorama of the 1930s Book
"Dark Valley" as a phrase was coined first by the Japanese to refer to the desperate years of chaotic depression that followed the 1929 slump. But, as Piers Brendon's epic history of the same name vividly demonstrates, it was apt to describe any of the world's leading nations--the crippled, traumatised European powers, a moody, solitary US, Stalin's outcast Russian Soviet and volatile, upstart Japan--of the time, with varying degrees of severity and fascinatingly contrasting outcomes. With no dishonour to those who endured the unspeakable traumas of the First World War, reading Brendon's scholarly tome leaves little scope to argue with the assertion, made by Leon Blum, amongst others, that the economic crisis and its effects were as traumatic as the "war to end all wars". Worse was to … read more...
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