To recognize appeasement, it’s best to learn from a master. One must not mistake Neville Chamberlain for a Nazi. He wasn’t. His antisemitism was that of T. S. Eliot — an offended sensibility, a mild ...

1. The figure of Neville Chamberlain—Britain’s prime minister between May 1937 and May 1940—is at the center of the appeasement story. He kept no diary, but the weekly letters he sent his two spinster ...

In her review of Tim Bouverie’s “Appeasement: Chamberlain, Hitler, Churchilll, and the Road to War” (July 21), Lynne Olson gives a number of reasons for what happened at the Munich conference in 1938, ...

In September 1938, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, falsely claiming that Czechoslovakia was oppressing its German minority in the border region of the Sudetenland, was about to attack that country.

Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press 2020. Pp. xii, 406. Figures, tables, notes, biblio., index. $39.99. ISBN:1009201980 An Insightful Look at the Politics of “Appeasement” On March 29, ...

President Donald Trump's appeasement of Vladimir Putin regarding Ukraine is reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain's appeasement of Adolf Hitler was in connection with what was then ...

Appeasement was the 1930s British plan to avoid World War II. Many considered it a failed policy as it allowed Germany to rapidly, ruthlessly, and very generously expand its territory. German entered ...