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The end is nigh : British politics, power, and the road to the Second World War /

Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political prophet, exiled into the wild...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crowcroft, Robert (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Political leadership > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1910-1936.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1936-1945.
Great Britain > History > George V, 1910-1936.
Great Britain > History > George VI, 1936-1952.
World War, 1939-1945 > Great Britain.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain.
Table of Contents:
  • The conservative ascendancy
  • Empire and intrigue
  • The politics of foreign policy
  • Defending the realm
  • Mr Chamberlain's quest
  • A cacophany of voices
  • Who governs Britain?
  • Planting the flag
  • The die is cast
  • State of siege
  • Death in the fjords
  • A new order.