Chamberlain and Appeasement

'R.A.C. Parker's book is a scrupulously scholarly synthesis designed to demolish both the original myth and the revisionist fantasy.' - Times 'This is an excellent, stimulating and important book, a version of the appeasement story that will stand for another 30 years.' - Guardian 'Superb. Based on a matchless knowledge of the archives and written with a kind of controlled intensity interspersed with elegant wit, it makes all previous accounts redundant and is of the first importance.' - Kenneth O. Morgan, New Statesman and Society 'You will want to read this book. It is intelligently provocative. It forces one to reconsider the real issues involved in the ongoing debate about appeasemenet, a controversy that has neither lost its historical importance nor its contemporary relevance.' - Zara Steiner, Financial Times 'Parker's work sets a standard at which any dissident will have to aim.' - Independent

• British Policy and German Grievances: Reparations and Rearmament British Policy and the League of Nations: Challenges from Japan and Italy British Policy and German Grievances: The Rhineland, Colonies and Frontiers The Spanish Civil War Chamberlain and Eden Chamberlain and Halifax Munich From Munich to Prague Guarantee to Poland Making a 'Peace Front': Chamberlain and the Soviet Alliance Confronting Italy, Japan and Germany: Chamberlain at Bay, April-August 1939 The Outbreak of War The Economies of 'Appeasement': British Rearmament and Strategy The United States and its Dominions Alternative Policies: Dissidents and Opponents.