Neville Chamberlain, appeasment and the British road to war

by Frank McDonough

Book Overview

Re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement. The text suggests that the mood of the age in British society served to support appeasement, by analyzing the cluster of military, strategic, imperial and economic forces which served to justify it. The book argues that, when Neville Chamberlain came to power, appeasement was part of a broad consensus in British society to avoid a second world war. It provides an interpretation of Chamberlain's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071904832X
• ISBN13: 9780719048326
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"