[hackandthink]

I think "Blood and Ruins" by Richard Overy is a great piece of work and a good account of the confusing history of the 1930s.

Munich was an "alliance" of Great Britain und Germany (and sort of Poland).

Then Germany and the Soviet Union allied against Poland.

Then Great Britain and The Soviet Union allied.

>The Russian paranoia hasn't changed much since Ivan The Terrible, long before neocons.

Prisoners of Geography is pop science but I like the chapter about Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_of_Geography

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/106335/blood-and-ruins-by-ov...