Contents	10
	Abbreviations	12
	Introduction: The Darker World	16
	1 Hitler’s Opening Gambit: Intelligence, Fear, and the German-Polish Agreement	22
	2 The Longest Knife	44
	3 Risk in the Rhineland	61
	4 Raising the Stakes: Information Flow and the End of Traditional Decision Making	81
	5 Betting It All: Disinformation, Deception, and the Anglo-German Talks	98
	6 Hitler’s Trump Card: Information Gaps and the Nazi-Soviet Pact	115
	Conclusions	133
	Notes	142
	Bibliography	160
	Index	170
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