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The Crash, the  Depression,  The Dust Bowl, The New Deal and how John Wayne won World War 2. (or how the Soviet Union out-produced Nazi Germany and crushed them at the Battle of Kursk) 

Historical Capitalism Part 4
John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash of 1929 (1955)
Adrian Grant, Socialist Republicanism in Ireland, 1909-1936 (2012)
Mark Harrison, ‘Resource mobilization for World War II: the U.S.A., U.K., U.S.S.R. and Germany’, 1938-1945’, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/mharrison/public/ehr88postprint.pdf
Eric Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (1994), Part One, https://libcom.org/files/Eric%20Hobsbawm%20-%20Age%20Of%20Extremes%20-%201914-1991.pdf
Emmet O’Connor, Reds and the Green: Ireland, Russia and the Communist Internationals, 1919-43 (1943)
Stanley G. Payne, A History of Fascism, 1914-1945 (1995)
Paul Preston, The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution and Revenge (2006)
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
Adam Tooze, The Wages of Destruction (2006)
Adam Tooze and James R. Martin, ‘The economics of the war with Germany’, in Michael Geyer and Adam Tooze (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Second World War(2015), https://adamtooze.com/app/uploads/2016/03/Tooze-Martin-Economics-of-War-Against-Hitler-CambHistWW2Vol3.pdf