Title: In our time
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Causes, Diplomatic history, Munich Four-Power Agreement, World War, 1939-1945, Diplomacy, European history: Second World War, International relations, World history: Second World War, World history: from c 1900 -, Second World War, 1939-1945, History, 20th Century Diplomatic History, World War II - Europe, History - General History, Military - World War II, History: World, Europe, Europe - General, History / Europe / General, MUNICH FOUR-POWER AGREEMENT (1938), WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_CAUSES, WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_DIPLOMATIC HISTORY, Political Science, International Relations - General, (1938), World war, 1939-1945, causes, World war, 1939-1945, diplomatic history
LC classification: D727 .L385 1998