Extensively researched from British, French, German, Italian, Soviet and American archival and documentary materials, this work examines in depth Hitler will to reverse territorial losses incurred by The Great War , covering, the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations; German rearmament; the introduction of compulsory military service and the enlargement of the German armed forces; the remilitarisation of the Rhineland; the notorious Hossbach Conference; the Austrian Anschluss; the Munich Conference; the brazen seizures of Bohemia-Moravia and the Memel District; the Danzig crisis; the cynical brokering of the Nazi-Soviet Pact; and the German invasion of western Poland.