Appeasement
Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II
“An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects on possible lessons for the present.”—Antonia Fraser, author of Mary Queen of Scots
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 the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began.
Appeasement is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of…
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June 2, 2020Tim Bouverie studied history at Christ Church, Oxford. Between 2013 and 2017 he was a political journalist for Channel 4 News in the UK. He regularly reviews books on history and politics for The Spectator, The Observer, and The Daily Telegraph. He lives in London.