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The goal of the British governments in the interwar period was balance among the European great powers--balance which would restore peace as well as a British prosperity based once again upon international trade. In the end, these grim years brought only economic depression... Read Full Overview

In this book historian R.J.Q. Adams examines the policy of appeasement as practiced by British Governments in the inter-war years - a programme widely praised in its day and frequently condemned as wrong-headed and even wicked ever since. In this thoroughly accessible work, he... Read Full Overview