Nigel Jones

A dead letter

Tim Bouverie makes clear that Chamberlain naively clung to his illusions until Hitler’s invasion of Czechoslovakia finally made appeasement wishful thinking

issue 13 April 2019

  • Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

    Tim Bouverie

    Bodley Head, pp. 435

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