
Автор: Tim Bouverie
Издательство: Tim Duggan Books
Год: 2019
Формат: epub
Страниц: 512
Размер: 37.8 Mb
Язык: English
SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER • A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain stepped off an airplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, "peace for our time." Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began.