In the minds of some, it is forever 1938. Whether the actual year is 1950, 1962, 1990 or even today, it is always that fateful annus horribilis when a Western politician is confronted by a bullying ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. The events that followed the appeasement of Germany in the 1930s were so horrific that appeasement ...

On Sept. 30, 1938, within Adolf Hitler’s private study in Munich, the Nazi leader and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed a document — the infamous Munich Agreement — that doomed ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Eighty-five years ago today, the world took a major step toward war. On September 28, the four major European powers, Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, signed the Munich pact, which ...

Holocaust Day was marked by solemn remembrances in Israel and in Jewish communities around the world. It was marked in the U.S., as has been customary, by a presidential address, where Biden said ...