Tim Bouverie. (2019). Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War. Crown.

Tim Bouverie. 2019. Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War. Crown.

Tim Bouverie, Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War. Crown, 2019.

Tim Bouverie. Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill, and the Road to War. Crown, 2019.

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   • bioText: Tim Bouverie studied history at Christ Church, Oxford. Between 2013 and 2017 he was a political journalist for Channel 4 News in the UK. He regularly reviews books on history and politics for The Spectator, The Observer, and The Daily Telegraph. He lives in London.
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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II
“An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects on possible lessons for the present.”—Antonia Fraser, author of Mary Queen of Scots
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began.
Appeasement is a groundbreaking history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler's domination of Europe. Drawing on deep archival research and sources not previously seen by historians, Tim Bouverie has created an unforgettable portrait of the ministers, aristocrats, and amateur diplomats who, through their actions and inaction, shaped their country's policy and determined the fate of Europe.
Beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, we embark on a fascinating journey from the early days of the Third Reich to the beaches of Dunkirk. Bouverie takes us not only into the backrooms of Parliament and 10 Downing Street but also into the drawing rooms and dining clubs of fading imperial Britain, where Hitler enjoyed surprising support among the ruling class and even some members of the royal family.
Both sweeping and intimate, Appeasement is not only an eye-opening history but a timeless lesson on the challenges of standing up to aggression and authoritarianism—and the calamity that results from failing to do so.

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     Starred review from May 15, 2019
     Illuminating study of the complex political calculus underlying Britain's effort to avoid armed conflict with Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. Most of the conservative leadership in Britain was aware from the start, if only dimly, that Hitler and his Nazis posed an existential threat to world order. Yet, after the bloodletting of World War I, writes Bouverie in this accomplished debut, there was no appetite for war, so that "the idea of a 'preventive war' to halt German rearmament was...beyond the realm even of discussion." Even though most members of the political class found official Nazi anti-Semitism appalling, "there was a tendency amongst some to find excuses for it." As a result, Britain stood by, acceding to German demands up to and including the annexation of a portion of Czechoslovakia with a large ethnic German population. As the author notes, that act of aggression was greeted enthusiastically by some Sudeten Germans but certainly not by the leftists, Jews, and members of other ethnic minorities who lived there. Hitler promised Britain's prime minister that if his government met Germany's " 'limited' colonial demands," there would be no further friction, but then came the invasion of Poland and the outbreak of World War II. Examining a trove of unexplored documents, Bouverie turns a gimlet eye on excuses proffered in the aftermath, such as the thought that the year of peace bought by the appeasement of 1938 gave Britain time to prepare for war; as he notes, it also bought Germany an extra year to build up its forces against the numerically superior French and British armies. The author faults Chamberlain, too, for having "treated the United States with frigid disdain" when a stronger alliance might have averted some of Hitler's mischief, though he does not doubt the purity of Chamberlain's intentions to preserve the British Empire and keep the peace. A story with many moving parts and players that's expertly told, one that sheds new light on the first glimmerings of total war.

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     June 1, 2019
     

     Could Hitler have been halted before rampaging Europe? Why did England believe they could manage the Third Reich without military force? These are questions Bouverie (Appeasing Hitler) answers thoroughly and decisively in this latest work. Appeasement, per the book's title, was a notion that Germany in the 1930s could simply be controlled. Bouverie meticulously details the rise and aggression of Hitler through the lens of British politicians, diplomats, and powerbrokers. The author argues that some foresaw Hitler for the despot he was, but many, most notably British prime minister Neville Chamberlain, could not fathom that Hitler's motives were so malevolent and cruel. Readers get a full view of this extensive failure from backroom dealings to the floor of parliament. Many know of how Chamberlain's successor, Winston Churchill, rose to glory in helping to defeat Hitler. Bouverie's history looks at individuals shying away from making difficult decisions in order to see what was right in front of them, with the goal of pinpointing the reasons why England waited so long to act. VERDICT History readers, particularly of the 20th century, will appreciate Bouverie's relentless pursuit of answers to the question, "Why?"--Keith Klang, Port Washington P.L., NY

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     August 19, 2019
     In this meticulous work, British journalist Bouverie provides a blow-by-blow recounting of Britain’s accommodation to Nazi Germany’s rearmament, beginning with the obvious observation that “the desire to avoid a second world war was perhaps the most understandable and universal wish in human history.” He convincingly argues that the failure of strong, consistent diplomatic efforts greatly contributed to the century’s great conflagration. Many British establishment figures of the time come in for fair and sometimes harsh criticism as Bouverie charts the descent toward war. Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, Foreign Secretary John Simon, and, of course, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, architect of the 1938 Munich agreement that caved to Hitler’s expansionism because it promised “peace for our time,” receive deserved criticism. So do the many upper-class, right-leaning “amateur diplomats” who tried to build relations with Hitler. According to Bouverie, they wanted to believe that Hitler’s objectives were modest and feared that rearmament was unaffordable and would escalate tensions. Bouverie manages to convey how outside the mainstream Churchill’s anti-Hitler views were for much of the mid-1930s, and how dimly his WWI record was viewed by his foes in the Conservative Party. His reconstruction is both clear-eyed and well-paced. This intelligent study of British prewar diplomacy will keep readers rapt.

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“An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects on possible lessons for the present.”—Antonia Fraser, author of Mary Queen of Scots
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began.
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