The roots of appeasement / Martin Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gilbert, Martin, 1936-2015, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Germany.

Great Britain.

Germany--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Germany.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages) : maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : RosettaBooks, 2015.

Summary:

An in-depth look at the misguided foreign policy of appeasement towards Hitler and the Third Reich during World War II-from a world renowned historian. World War II and its attendant horrors arguably began in the British policy of appeasement of the Nazi rise to power between the First and Second World Wars. In this compelling work, Martin Gilbert walks the reader through several decades of behavior that, in retrospect, is hard to accept. Gilbert's incisive focus on primary sources uncovers the real reasons for the appeasement policy, from the search for a just peace to attempts to avoid another war at all costs-illuminating the historical underpinnings of a fatally flawed policy and its tragic consequences for the Jewish people. This book also contains a chronology of appeasement policy as well as five specially drawn maps and five appendices-including a transcript of British statesman and politician David Lloyd George's conversation with Hitler at Berchtesgaden in 1936.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Maps

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Chronology of Appeasement

1 The Challenge of War

2 War Doubts

3 War Guilt

4 The Elusive Peace

5 Appeasement: The Essential Prospect

6 Versailles: The Nagging Doubt

7 The First Appeasement

8 No Victor, No Vanquished

9 Cry Havoc

10 The Crisis with France

11 The New Leader

12 Locarny-Blarney

13 The Sargent Chain

14 Nostra Maxima Culpa

15 Peace Through Prosperity

16 Nationalism Versus Ideology

Epilogue: Munich and the New Appeasement

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Appendix 3

Appendix 4

Appendix 5

Notes

Select Bibliography

Other Books by Martin Gilbert.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780795346804

0795346808

OCLC:

952932257