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Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War

By Adrian Phillips

Book information

Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Year
2019
ISBN
9781785905407
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2644375 bytes)
Pages
384\0
Topic
History
Time added
2019-10-09 05:45:42

Description

In Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler Adrian Phillips presents a radical new view of the British policy of appeasement in the late 1930s. No one doubts that appeasement failed, but Phillips shows that it caused active harm – even sabotaging Britain's preparations for war. He goes far further than previous historians in identifying the individuals responsible for a catalogue of miscalculations, deviousness and moral surrender that made the Second World War inevitable, and highlights the alternative policies that might have prevented it. Phillips outlines how Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and his chief advisor, Sir Horace Wilson, formed a fatally inept two-man foreign-policy machine that was immune to any objective examination, criticism or assessment – ruthlessly manipulating the media to support appeasement while batting aside policies advocated by Winston Churchill, the most vocal opponent of appeasement. Churchill understood that Hitler was the...

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