Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War
First edition cover
AuthorTim Bouverie
Audio read byJohn Sessions[1]
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBritish appeasement of Adolf Hitler
PublisherThe Bodley Head
Publication date
18 April 2019
Media typePrint (hardcover and paperback)
Pages512
ISBN978-1-84792-440-7 (hardcover)
327.41043
LC ClassDA47.2 .B685 2019

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War, is a 2019 book by Tim Bouverie about the British policy of appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.

Bouverie explains the policy as a product of the British response to the First World War. Given that an enormous percentage of Britain's fighting-age men had died in a war the purpose of which no one could perceive, Bouverie describes British pacifism as the explanation of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, since "The desire to avoid a Second World War was perhaps the most understandable and universal wish in history."[2] Bouverie describes the antisemitism of the British ruling class as the secondary cause of Britain's reluctance to stand up to Hitler.[2]

The book is a strong response to a number of recent works of historical revisionism that have painted Chamberlain as a "super-pragmatist", much maligned since his options were limited by widespread popular pacifism and also painting him as a man who cleverly used appeasement to gain time that would enable Britain to rearm.[3]

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