The aftermath of a Japanese air raid on Shanghai in 1937.
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TopFotoThere were several conflicts involving the Axis Powers between 1935 and 1939, which challenged Britain's policy of appeasement and prefigured the Second World War.
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Further reading
- Bickers, R., Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism 1900-1949 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1999)
- Buchanan, T., Britain and the Spanish Civil War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
- Hardie, F., The Abyssinian Crisis (Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1974)
- McKercher, B.J.C., The Foreign Office, 1930-39: Strategy, Permanent Interests and National Security Contemporary British History 18, pp. 87-109 (2004) Contemporary British History
- Williams, M., Mussolini's Secret War in the Mediterranean and the Middle East: Italian Intelligence and the British Response Intelligence and National Security 22, pp. 881-904 (2007) Intelligence and National Security
