Description: In a work of breathtaking scholarship and scope, "The Dark Valley" is a magisterial overview of the clouded and turbulent pause between the two World Wars. Brendon expertly takes readers through a decade dominated by the Great Depression, political unrest, and social upheaval. of photos.
Review Quotes: "A masterful survey of that troubled decade."-Foreign Affairs
"Page by page this synoptic tour de force...propels the reader towards the inevitable cataclysms of the '40s."-Time "An innovative format, a wealth of detail gleaned from prodigious research, and stylistic gifts worthy of a great novelist...gives Brendon's book a magisterial quality unmatched by other histories of the period."-The Philadelphia Inquirer "Brilliantly written and meticulously researched, The Dark Valley provides a depth of understanding of the misery of the Great Depression that few Americans alive today can grasp." --The Denver Post