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1/26/20

How Neville Chamberlin Misread Hitler and Allowed the Third Reich to Threaten the World Order

by Jeff Roquen

In the new and magisterial study Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchill and the Road to War, Tim Bouverie incisively reconstructs the ideological landscape of post-WWI Britain to explain how Chamberlain and other politicians and pundits misread Hitler and ultimately allowed the Third Reich to threaten the entire world order.

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How Neville Chamberlin Misread Hitler and Allowed the Third Reich to Threaten the World Order

by Jeff Roquen