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Neville Chamberlain, Appeasement and the British Road to War (New Frontiers in History) Book

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 conduct by showing how he used and abused the mood of the age to justify a selfish and ambitious policy which was idealogically prejudiced. Yet, when Hitler entered Prague in March 1939, the public mood changed, and Chamberlain found himself a prisoner of a new mood which forced him to make a tactical and half-hearted attempt to stand up to Hitler for which he had no enthusiasm.Read More

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  • Blackwell

    Drawing on a wide range of material, including primary sources, Frank McDonough re-examines the controversial policy of appeasement in a new and challenging way. He explains now the mood of the age in British society served to support...

  • ASDA

    McDonough takes a broad approach which brings social economic and strategic factors together with a detailed analysis of Chamberlain's policy allowing students to explore questions of continuity and change more clearly.

  • 071904832X
  • 9780719048326
  • Frank McDonough
  • 8 January 1998
  • Manchester University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 196
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