Imprint: Bodley Head
Published: 18/04/2019
ISBN: 9781847924407
Length: 512 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 36mm x 162mm
Weight: 930g
RRP: £20.00
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‘One of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years’ Max Hastings
'Appeasing Hitler is…astonishingly accomplished' Antony Beevor
'Excellent' Andrew Roberts
On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began.
Appeasing Hitler is a compelling new narrative history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Nazi domination of Europe. Beginning with the advent of Hitler in 1933, it sweeps from the early days of the Third Reich to the beaches of Dunkirk.
Bouverie takes us into the backrooms of 10 Downing Street and Parliament, where a small group of rebellious MPs, including the indomitable Winston Churchill, were among the few to realise that the only choice was between ‘war now or war later’.
Drawing on deep archival research, including previously unseen sources, Appeasing Hitler is not only eye-opening history but a timeless lesson on the challenges of standing up to aggression and authoritarianism – and the calamity that results from failing to do so that feels ever more relevant in today’s fractious political climate.
‘Brilliant and sparkling … reads like a thriller. I couldn’t put it down’ Peter Frankopan
Imprint: Bodley Head
Published: 18/04/2019
ISBN: 9781847924407
Length: 512 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 36mm x 162mm
Weight: 930g
RRP: £20.00
Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut. Bouverie writes with a wonderful clarity and we will no doubt hear a lot more of his voice in future
A brilliant and sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian. Tim Bouverie has written an account of the build-up to the Second World War that reads like a thriller. I couldn’t put it down.
This is the debut of an unusually talented writer, one of the most promising young historians to enter our field for years
Every so often I've been escaping to the corner of my garden and losing myself in Tim Bouverie's brilliant Appeasing Hitler. It's a compelling read that combines detailed research with a flair for narrative
Drawing on an impressive and interesting range of sources and characters, Tim Bouverie has written a fascinating and scholarly portrait of a decade when credulity, self-interest and poor judgement prevailed tragically and inexorably over morality and good sense: this is the reporting of history at its best
Appeasing Hitler is the stunning debut of a major new narrative historian. A riveting and depressing story which has resonance today as the democracies again face dictatorships
In meticulous detail and with moments of novelty and insight… [Appeasing Hitler] should become a standard text on this inglorious episode… an exceptionally promising debut. He has great narrative abilities and his research has been extensive
Sparkling and witty... The best account of the subject that I have ever read
This gripping book is…valuable because it illuminates some eternal truths
Tim Bouverie tells the story of appeasement with skill, verve and panache, using contemporary accounts to great effect in exploring the mentalities that lay behind the political decisions