In our time

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When British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned from his Munich meetings with Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he proclaimed that he held in his hands a document guaranteeing "peace in our time." In the decades since, Chamberlain's folly has become the occasion for a commonplace historical lesson: that when the "good" innocently accept the assurances of the "evil," the result is catastrophic. Clement Leibovitz challenge the familiar understanding of Munich as the product of a naïve "appeasement" of Nazi appetites. They argue that it was the culmination of cynical collaboration between the Tory government and the Nazis in the 1930s. Based upon a careful reading of official and unofficial correspondence, conference notes, cabinet minute, and diaries, In Our Time documents the steps taken under diplomatic cover by the West to strike a bargain based upon shared anti-Soviet premises.

subjects: Causes,  Diplomatic history,  Munich Four-Power Agreement,  World War, 1939-1945,  Diplomacy,  European history: Second World War,  International relations,  World history: Second World War,  World history: from c 1900 -,  Second World War, 1939-1945,  History,  20th Century Diplomatic History,  World War II - Europe,  History - General History,  Military - World War II,  History: World,  Europe,  Europe - General,  History / Europe / General,  MUNICH FOUR-POWER AGREEMENT (1938),  WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_CAUSES,  WORLD WAR, 1939-1945_DIPLOMATIC HISTORY,  Political Science,  International Relations - General,  (1938)