In his book
The Origins of the Second World War
A. J. P. Taylor
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford argues that the war was the result of diplomatic blunders on both sides and that the state of German rearmament in 1939 proved that Hitler was not contemplating general war.
These views are challenged in this discussion by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford
Chairman, Robert Kee
Sound recording of the BBC Television production of July 9