"No historical event has exerted more influence on America's post-1945 use of military force than the failure of Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany at the 1938 Munich Conference. In The Specter of Munich, defense analyst Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at the disastrous …
"No historical event has exerted more influence on America's post-1945 use of military force than the failure of Anglo-French appeasement of Nazi Germany at the 1938 Munich Conference. In The Specter of Munich, defense analyst Jeffrey Record takes a fresh look at the disastrous …
Was Adolf Hitler hell-bent on inciting a war, and there was no course of action by any national leader that could have prevented World War II? Or, did Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy with Germany and slowness in strengthening England's armed forces direct…
Based largely on Neville Chamberlain's own words and official government documents, this book describes how were it not for Chamberlain's powerful, dominating presence in the British government, World War II might have been avoided.