Hitler and Appeasement - The British Attempt to Prevent the Second World War

Informationen zum Autor Peter Neville is Research Fellow in History at Kingston University, UK. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . He is the author of Mussolini (2003), Appeasing Hitler (1999) and the Historical Dictionary of British Foreign Policy (2013). Klappentext Hitler, Mussolini and Japan posed a terrible threat to Britain and its empire. With America withdrawn into isolationism and Stalin's Russia hostile to the West, it is hardly surprising that Britain strove to sustain peace for as long as possible by the traditional tools of diplomacy and accommodation. Stigmatised as 'Appeasement', this has often been held to be a bankrupt policy, epitomised by Chamberlain's Munich Agreement in 1938, handing over the Sudetenland. Hitler and Appeasement shows, in contrast, that many of the government's policies were reasonable and well-thought-out; nor did ministers ignore rearmament. After the appalling experiences of the First World War, no one in Britain wished to be in another war. It was only the unpredictable catastrophes of the Russo-German agreement of 1939 and the Fall of France in 1940 that cast Appeasement into disrepute, leaving stains on the reputations of Baldwin and Chamberlain that are little deserved. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Armistice; 2 The Birth of Appeasement; 3 Hitler Comes to Power; 4 Four Appeasers; 5 Italy and Japan; 6 Three Crises; 7 Munich; 8 The Armed Forces; 9 The Foreign Office; 10 Poland; 11 The Coming of War; 12 Verdict; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Peter Neville, Neville Peter
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2007
• EAN: 9781852855277
• ISBN: 978-1-85285-527-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Internationale Beziehungen, Deutschland, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain, History - General History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, International Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain