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About This Book
The origins of the Second World War remain clouded in Churchillian mythology. Sixty years on, Peter Neville's controversial book provides an essential reassessment of the appeasement myths by examining a central yet understudied figure. Sir Nevile Henderson has been vilified as 'our Nazi Ambassador in Berlin' by historians and popular memory alike. He has remained in disgrace despite the widespread historical rethinking of appeasement in recent years. Yet there has never before been a book-length study of Henderson despite his central role as Britain's Ambassador. Peter Neville's important reassessment draws upon primary documents to overturn orthodox interpretations. While Henderson's analysis of the Nazi regime was seriously flawed, history has vastly overstated his influence. In presenting the first full and close analysis of what Henderson himself called 'the failure of a mission', the author has made a pathbreaking contribution to the history of appeasement.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 The Emergent Diplomat
- 2 A Man with a Mission
- 3 The Anschluss
- 4 From the Anschluss to the 'May Scare', 1938
- 5 From the May Crisis to the Nuremberg Rally, May-September 1938
- 6 From Nuremberg to Munich
- 7 Interlude: October 1938-February 1939
- 8 The Polish Crisis
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index