{"product_id":"fighting-churchill-appeasing-hitler-neville-chamberlain-sir-horace-wilson-britains-plight-of-appeasement-1937-1939-9781643132211","title":"Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: Neville Chamberlain, Sir Horace Wilson, \u0026 Britain's Plight of Appeasement: 1937-1939","description":"\u003cb\u003eA radically new view of the British policy of appeasement in the late 1930s, identifying the individuals responsible for a variety of miscalculations and moral surrender that made World War II inevitable.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAppeasement failed in all its goals. The kindest thing that can be said of it is that postponed World War II by one year. Its real effect was to convince Hitler and Mussolini that Britain was weak and afraid of confrontation, encouraging them to ever-greater acts of aggression. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChamberlain and Wilson blindly pursued bilateral friendship between Britain and the dictators and ferociously resisted alternative policies such as working with France, the Soviet Union, or the U.S. to face down the dictators. They resisted all-out rearmament which would have put the economy on a war footing. These were all the policies advocated by Winston Churchill, the most dangerous opponent of appeasement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNeither Chamberlain nor Wilson had any experience of day-to-day practical diplomacy. Both thought that the dictators would apply the same standards of rationality and clarity to the policies of Italy and Germany that applied in Britain. They could not grasp that Fascist demagogues operated in an entirely different way to democratic politicians. The catastrophe of the Chamberlain\/Wilson appeasement policy offers a vital lesson in how blind conviction in one policy as the only alternative can be fatally damaging.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pegasus Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781643132211\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/11\/2019 pg. 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Adrian Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44431881732277,"sku":"9781643132211","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_80b3b55f-0b17-4246-8a34-b41493f95241.jpg?v=1721138656","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/fighting-churchill-appeasing-hitler-neville-chamberlain-sir-horace-wilson-britains-plight-of-appeasement-1937-1939-9781643132211","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}