44 Days in Prague: The Runciman Mission and the Race to Save Europe

by Ann Shukman

After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfather Walter Runciman's 1938 Mission to Prague. This government-sponsored British delegation sought to broker peace between the Czechoslovak republic and its Sudeten German minority--a dispute that Hitler was aggravating with virulent anti-Czech propaganda and threats of invasion.

Drawing fresh evidence from personal diaries, private...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197786359
• ISBN13: 9780197786352
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 8.8"