Esmonde M. Robertson

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Esmonde Manning Robertson ( 1923 - 1986 ) was a British historian.

Robertson dealt in his repeatedly printed works predominantly with the prehistory of the Second World War. At the beginning of the 1960s he worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Contemporary History in Munich . Robertson then worked as a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and as a professor at the London School of Economics .

Works

  • Hitler's Pre-war Policy and military plans 1933–1939. London 1963
  • The origins of the Second World War: historical interpretations. London et al. 1971
  • Mussolini as empire-builder: Europe and Africa, 1932-36. London et al. 1977
  • Paths to was. New essays on the origins of the Second World War. Basingstoke 1989