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Appeasement : Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the road to war /

A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II. On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bouverie, Tim, 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Tim Duggan Books, [2019]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Chamberlain, Neville, > 1869-1940.
Churchill, Winston, > 1874-1965.
Hitler, Adolf, > 1889-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Causes.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Germany.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1936-1945.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1936-1945.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Diplomacy.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
HISTORY > Military > World War II.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface: "Never again!"
  • Prologue: The storm breaks
  • The Hitler experiment
  • "I sing of arms and the man"
  • Tea with Hitler
  • The Abyssinian imbroglio
  • Across the Rhine
  • The defense of the realm
  • Hitler's wonderland
  • Enter Chamberlain
  • Hunting for peace
  • "Bowlers are back!"
  • The rape of Austria
  • Last train from Berlin
  • Hons and rebels
  • A faraway country
  • The crisis breaks
  • To the brink
  • A piece of paper
  • Peace for our time
  • Chamberlain betrayed
  • Deterring the dictators
  • The last season
  • Final hours
  • Ghosts of appeasement
  • The fall of Chamberlain
  • Appeasement's last stand
  • Epilogue: "Guilty men."