Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler (Hardcover)
Adrian Phillips
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Add to basketHardcover. No one doubts that appeasement failed, but Phillipsshows that it caused active harm - even sabotaging Britain's preparations forwar. He goes far further than previous historians in identifying theindividuals responsible for a catalogue of miscalculations, deviousness andmoral surrender that made the Second World War inevitable, and highlights thealternative policies that might have prevented it. Featuring new revelationsabout the personalities involved and the shameful manipulations andbetrayals that went into appeasement, including an attempt to buy Hitler offwith a ruthless colonialist deal in Africa, FightingChurchill, Appeasing Hitler shines a compelling and original light on oneof the darkest hours in British diplomatic history. Featuring new revelationsabout the personalities involved and the shameful manipulationsandbetrayals that went into appeasement, including an attempt to buy Hitler offwith a ruthless colonialist deal in Africa, FightingChurchill, Appeasing Hitler shines a compelling and original light on oneof the darkest hours in British diplomatic history. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
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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 implacable enemy of peace and Britain but Chamberlain and Wilson were terrified that any display of firmness would provoke him. For the first time, Phillips brings to light how Wilson and Churchill had been enemies since an incident early in their careers, and how, eventually, opposing Churchill became an end in itself.
Featuring new revelations about the personalities involved and the shameful manipulations and betrayals that went into appeasement, including an attempt to buy Hitler off with a ruthless colonialist deal in Africa, Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler shines a compelling and original light on one of the darkest hours in British diplomatic history.
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