Appeasing Hitler

PETER NEVILLE is Senior Lecturer, Department of History at Wolverhampton University. He is the author of Neville Chamberlain: a Study in Failure? , Winston Churchill: Statesman or Opportunist? , France 1914-69: the Three Republics , A Traveller's History of Russia and the USSR , A Traveller's History of Ireland , and The Holocaust (forthcoming). He has written a number of articles on the history of appeasement for journals including Modern History Review , Journal of Contemporary History and the Review of International Studies .

'An essential corrective to the image that has been created of Nevile Henderson as an invertebrate appeaser... Written in a lucid and cultured way, and based upon a very wide variety of sources, this is one of the most outstanding contributions to appeasement scholarship in recent years.' - Andrew Crozier, Reader in History, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London 'This important book fills a chronic gap in the historiography of appeasement. Peter Neville's book is the first major study of a subject far too long neglected and slighted. For over fifty years Sir Nevile Henderson, Britain's ambassador to Berlin 1937-9, has been almost uniformly written off by historians and branded as a prime scape-goat for appeasement. For the first time Peter Neville puts the case for Henderson and places him fairly and convincingly in context as an experienced and hitherto well thought-of diplomat attempting to cope in an impossible situation.' - A. Lentin, Reader in History, The Open University '...well-researched...makes a significant contribution to the still growing literature on the years of appeasement.' - D.J. Dutton, Diplomacy & Statecraft '...a vibrant and articulate book that deserves to be read.' - N.J. Crowson, Contemporary British History

• Preface Acknowledgements Introduction The Emergent Diplomat A Man with a Mission The Anschluss From the Anschluss to the 'May Scare', 1938 From the May Crisis to the Nuremberg Rally. May-September 1938 From Nuremberg to Munich Interlude. October 1938-February 1939 The Polish Crisis Conclusion Bibliography Index