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

by Peter Neville

Book Overview

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 With America withdrawn into isolationism and Stalin's Russia hostile to the West, it is hardly surprising that Britain strove to sustain peace for as long as possible by the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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852855274
• ISBN13: 9781852855277
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 9.0"