Appeasing Hitler : Chamberlain, Churchill and the road to war
Bouverie, Tim, 1987-2020
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Place reservation for Appeasing Hitler : Chamberlain, Churchill and the road to warOn a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, 'peace for our time'. Within a year of the British prime minister's return from Munich, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. That moment of theatre was the culmination of over five years of drama. Beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, Tim Bouverie takes us on a fascinating journey from the early days of the Third Reich to the beaches of Dunkirk. We enter the 10 Downing Street of Stanley Baldwin and Chamberlain, and the backrooms of Parliament where an unusual coalition of MPs - including the indomitable Winston Churchill - were among the few to realise that the only real choice was between 'war now or war later'.
Appeasing Hitler : Chamberlain, Churchill and the road to war / Tim Bouverie.
Bouverie, Tim, 1987-, author
London : Vintage, 2020.
xiii, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 20 cm
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2019.Includes bibliographical references and index.
9781784705749 (pbk)
941.0840922941.084
English
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945World War, 1939-1945 -- Great BritainChamberlain, Neville, 1869-1940Baldwin, Stanley Baldwin, Earl, 1867-1947Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th centuryHitler, Adolf, 1889-1945 -- Friends and associatesWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic historyGreat Britain -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryHistoryUnited Kingdom, Great BritainGermanyInter-war period c 1919 to c 1939European historyHistory
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