Munich

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'A sparkling and perceptive account of events that still resonate seventy years on D.R.Thorpe
On 30 September 1938 Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting at Munich vi^ith the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler. As he paused on the ^aircraft steps, he held aloft the piece of paper which bore both his and the Führer s signature, the promise that Britain and Germany would never go to war with one another again. He had returned bringing 'Peace with honour - Peace for our time.'
Drawing on a wealth of original archival material, David Faber sheds new light on this extraordinary story, tracing the key incidents leading up to
the meeting at Munich and its immediate aftermath: Lord Halifax's ill-fated visit to Hitler; Chamberlain's secret negotiations with Mussolini,
and the Berlin scandal that rocked Hitler's régime. He takes us to Vienna, to the Sudetenland, and to Prague. In Berlin we witness Hitler
inexorably preparing for war; and in London we watch helplessly as... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'A sparkling and perceptive account of events that still resonate seventy years on D.R.Thorpe
On 30 September 1938 Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting at Munich vi^ith the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler. As he paused on the ^aircraft steps, he held aloft the piece of paper which bore both his and the Führer s signature, the promise that Britain and Germany would never go to war with one another again. He had returned bringing 'Peace with honour - Peace for our time.'
Drawing on a wealth of original archival material, David Faber sheds new light on this extraordinary story, tracing the key incidents leading up to
the meeting at Munich and its immediate aftermath: Lord Halifax's ill-fated visit to Hitler; Chamberlain's secret negotiations with Mussolini,
and the Berlin scandal that rocked Hitler's régime. He takes us to Vienna, to the Sudetenland, and to Prague. In Berlin we witness Hitler
inexorably preparing for war; and in London we watch helplessly as Chamberlain makes one supreme effort after another to appease Hitler.
An important contribution to our understanding of the diplomatic debacle which signalled the start of the Second World War' Independent on Sunday
'Timely as well as commemorative Faber has written a compelling work of narrative history' The Spectator
'A fascinating reconstruction of one of the most squalid events in European diplomatic history' Ronald Harwood, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year Vissza