In our time
Subtitle: the Chamberlain-Hitler collusion
By: Clement Leibovitz and Alvin Finkel ; preface by Christopher Hitchens.
Contributors: Finkel, Alvin, 1949-
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Munich Four-Power Agreement (1938); World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes; World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history
Description: When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from his Munich meetings with Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he proclaimed that he held in his hands a document guaranteeing "peace in our time." In the decades since, Chamberlain's folly has become the occasion for a commonplace historical lesson: that when the "good" innocently accept the assurances of the "evil," the result is catastrophic. Clement Leibovitz challenge the familiar understanding of Munich as the product of a naïve "appeasement" of Nazi appetites. They argue that it was the culmination of cynical collaboration between the Tory government and the Nazis in the 1930s. Based upon a careful reading of official and unofficial correspondence, conference notes, cabinet minute, and diaries, In Our Time documents the steps taken under diplomatic cover by the West to strike a bargain based upon shared anti-Soviet premises.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-301) and index.