Title: The life of Neville Chamberlain,
Authors: Feiling, Keith Grahame, 1884-
Publisher: Archon Books,
Year: 1970
Subjects: Chamberlain, Neville,; Prime ministers Great Britain Biography.; Great Britain Politics and government
Abstract: "Neville Chamberlain, in full Arthur Neville Chamberlain (born March 18, 1869, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England?died November 9, 1940, Heckfield, near Reading, Hampshire), prime minister of the United Kingdom from May 28, 1937, to May 10, 1940, whose name is identified with the policy of ?appeasement? toward Adolf Hitler?s Germany in the period immediately preceding World War II."--Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Contents: Background -- Youth -- The island -- Waiting -- Inner life and the outskirts of politics -- First citizen of Birmingham -- Minister of national service -- First steps to Westminster -- Turmoil -- Personal -- The ministry of health -- Last efforts in tranquillity -- Slough of despond -- The first year -- End of the post-war world -- Recovery -- Foreign affairs: retrospect to 1935 -- Abyssinia and the Rhineland -- Baldwin's last year -- The international legacy -- Prime minister and home politics -- Rearmament -- Foreign affairs -- June 1937-March 1938 -- The Czech question -- March-August 1938 -- Background of Munich -- Berchtesgaden and Godesberg -- Munich -- Strain and stress -- The end of appeasement -- On the eve -- The twilight war -- Fall from power -- The end.