Prisms of British Appeasement: Revisionist Reputations of John Simon, Samuel Hoare, Anthony Eden, Lord Halifax and Alfred Duff Cooper

by Terrance L. Lewis

Of these five major political figures from the National Governments of the 1930s, three were condemned in a famous 1940 pamphlet as major 'Guilty Men' -- appeasers responsible for Britain's failure to contain Hitler and Mussolini. Anthony Eden and Duff Cooper were excused since they had resigned from office in 1938. All of them wrote memoirs to give their version of the events of the 1930s, and each has attracted at least one biographer. Their actions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845194225
• ISBN13: 9781845194222
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"