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04149aam a2200433Mi 4500 001 130A23A217F611EAB200623997128E48 003 SILO 005 20191206010022 008 191115t20192019nyuaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1643132210 020 $a 9781643132211 035 $a (OCoLC)1127650565 040 $a FMG $b eng $e rda $c FMG $d OCLCO $d IEB $d TCH $d IEB $d IOU $d SILO 050 14 $a DA47.2 $b .P52 2019 082 04 $a 941.084 $2 23 100 1 $a Phillips, Adrian, $e author. 245 10 $a Fighting Churchill, appeasing Hitler : $b Neville Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson, & Britain's plight of appeasement, 1937-1939 / $c Adrian Phillips. 246 3 $a Neville Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson, & Britain's plight of appeasement, 1937-1939 250 $a First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Pegasus Books, $c 2019. 300 $a xxxi, 448 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-433) and index. 520 $a A radically new view of the British policy of appeasement in the late 1930s, identifying the individuals responsible for a variety of miscalculations and moral surrender that made World War II inevitable. Appeasement failed in all its goals. The kindest thing that can be said of it is that postponed World War II by one year. Its real effect was to convince Hitler and Mussolini that Britain was weak and afraid of confrontation, encouraging them to ever-greater acts of aggression. The turning point of the Czech crisis in September 1938 came when Wilson saw Hitler on his own and left him convinced that Britain was bluffing and would not go to war to defend Czechoslovakia. The dismemberment of Czechoslovakia that followed was not the end of appeasement. The Anglo-German Declaration was Chamberlain's personal vanity project but both Chamberlain and Wilson believed that it genuinely brought "peace for our time." Chamberlain and Wilson blindly pursued bilateral friendship between Britain and the dictators and ferociously resisted alternative policies such as working with France, the Soviet Union, or the U.S. to face down the dictators. They resisted all-out rearmament which would have put the economy on a war footing. These were all the policies advocated by Winston Churchill, the most dangerous opponent of appeasement. Churchill was a hated figure for Chamberlain and Wilson. They could not accept Churchill's perception that that Hitler was the implacable enemy of peace and Britain, and opposing him became an end in itself for them. Churchill and Wilson had been bitter adversaries since early in their careers because of an incident that Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler reveals publicly for the first time. Chamberlain had a fraught relationship with Churchill long before appeasement became an issue. Neither Chamberlain nor Wilson had any experience of day-to-day practical diplomacy. Both thought that the dictators would apply the same standards of rationality and clarity to the policies of Italy and Germany that applied in Britain. They could not grasp that Fascist demagogues operated in an entirely different way to democratic politicians. The catastrophe of the Chamberlain/Wilson appeasement policy offers a vital lesson in how blind conviction in one policy as the only alternative can be fatally damaging. 8 pages of B&W photographs. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $z Germany. 651 0 $a Germany $x Foreign relations $z Great Britain. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Politics and government $y 1936-1945. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x Foreign relations $y 1936-1945. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Causes. 600 10 $a Chamberlain, Neville, $d 1869-1940. 600 10 $a Churchill, Winston, $d 1874-1965. 600 10 $a Wilson, Horace, $c Sir, $d 1882-1972. 600 10 $a Hitler, Adolf, $d 1889-1945. 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200402015620.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20200208011047.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20191207010125.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=130A23A217F611EAB200623997128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search