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Axis of Convenience

By Clara Duval

Axis of Convenience

By Clara Duval

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A photograph can lie. The smiling diplomats, the choreographed handshakes-everything suggested a single will. Yet behind the stage lights, three different wars ran on incompatible clocks. This book takes you inside the machinery of World War II alliances, showing how Italy Germany Japan entered an alliance of convenience that publicised unity while privately pursuing separate, colliding plans.Through vivid case studies and clear explanations, you'll see how treaties like the Tripartite Pact, Pact of Steel, and Anti-Comintern Pact offered legal costume without logistical choreography. You'll watch resource scarcity and shipping maths-what the author calls "resource clocks"-reshape strategy more than slogans ever could. And you'll meet leaders trapped by their own narratives, a study in authoritarian leadership psychology that is as contemporary as today's news.- Understand the hard constraints-oil, rubber, sea lanes-that turned ambition into resource wars- Learn why propaganda can coordinate audiences but not armies- Apply a four-part diagnostic to any coalition: clock alignment, theatre fit, resource arithmetic, narrative costFor readers of military history, geopolitics, and anyone curious about the geopolitics of the 1930s, this is a bracing, accessible guide to how coalitions actually work-and why they often don't. If you want a sharper lens on the Axis powers and a usable model for judging alliances today, start here.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
158
Release Date:
2025-11-05
Publication Date:
2025-11-05
Publisher:
VIJ Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9390349842
ISBN13:
9789390349845
Weight:
240 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
9 cm
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