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Sto caricando le informazioni... Appeasing Hitler The diplomacy of Sir Nevile Henderson, 1937-39di Peter Neville
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This slim work reads like a courtroom defense. Sir Nevile Henderson, Britain's Ambassador to Germany from 1937 to 1939 has been condemned by many historians for what is perceived to be a pro-German policy that ran counter to some Whitehall administrators. Neville debunks this charge by citing diplomatic correspondence that portrays the Foreign Office frequently at odds with the Prime Ministers they served. Unspoken is the argument that if the Western powers had chosen to rearm and demonstrate courage, they could have stopped Hitler in the Rhineland and on other occasions up to the start of the war. But Chamberlain and Henderson were so anti-war, their memories of the slaughter of WWI so pervasive, that they could not conceive of any other strategy than to avoid military conflict at all costs, which, of course, in dealing with Hitler was simply throwing oil upon a fire. Neville never mentions an alternative reality in which the democracies defeat the fascists in Spain, roll back Mussolini's conquests, and squelch Hitler when he began to violate the rearmament provisions of Versailles. Another important point is that the British upper classes' loathing of Moscow practically forced Stalin and Hitler into their non-agression pact. So this defense of Henderson, while successful on a line by line reading, totally ignores the damage he and Chamberlain (together with the appeasers in France) inflicted upon the world. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The origins of the Second World War remain clouded in Churchillian mythology. Sixty years on, Peter Neville's controversial book provides an essential reassessment of the appeasement myths by examining a central yet understudied figure. Sir Nevile Henderson has been vilified as 'our Nazi Ambassador in Berlin' by historians and popular memory alike. He has remained in disgrace despite the widespread historical rethinking of appeasement in recent years. Yet there has never before been a book-length study of Henderson despite his central role as Britain's Ambassador. Peter Neville's important reassessment draws upon primary documents to overturn orthodox interpretations. While Henderson's analysis of the Nazi regime was seriously flawed, history has vastly overstated his influence. In presenting the first full and close analysis of what Henderson himself called 'the failure of a mission', the author has made a pathbreaking contribution to the history of appeasement. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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