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Prisoners of the past? : the Munich syndrome and makers of American foreign policy in the cold war era
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ISBN: 9140048357 Year: 1981 Publisher: Lund Gleerup

Munich : the price of peace
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ISBN: 0394744829 Year: 1980 Publisher: New York [N.Y.]: Vintage

French foreign and defence policy, 1918-1940 : the decline and fall of a great power
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ISBN: 1134748272 128014050X 0203979222 9780203979228 9780415150392 0415150396 0415150396 9786610140503 6610140502 9781134748273 9781134748228 9781134748266 1134748264 Year: 1998 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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French Foreign and Defence Policy, 1918-1940 outlines France's strategies for protection and appeasement during this period and places interwar relations in a larger European context. This book examines: * relationships with key countries such as Italy and Russia * the significance of interwar France to 20th Century European integration * the historical context of the policies * the setbacks and defeats of the period and how they should be evaluated


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Henri de Kerillis, 1889-1958: L'absolu Patriote
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ISBN: 2868472273 2753524947 Year: 1997 Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rennes

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Le 4 octobre 1938, à l'Assemblée nationale, un député de droite, seul, vote contre les accords de Munich qui livrent la Tchécoslovaquie à Hitler. Il s'appelle Henri de Kerillis. Fils d'un amiral breton, il s'illustre comme lieutenant de cavalerie, pendant la première guerre mondiale, puis se reconvertit dans l'aviation et se couvre de gloire à la tête de son escadrille de bombardiers. Toute sa vie il restera un combattant. Après la guerre, il quitte l'armée pour le journalisme, et entre à l'Écho de Paris où, très vite, il prend la direction du service politique. Parallèlement, il mène une activité intense : fondation du centre de propagande des Républicains nationaux, création d'un cours d'orateurs, participation aux premières émissions à la radio, etc. Mais le grand mérite d'Henri de Kerillis est d'avoir fait du combat contre l'hitlérisme la priorité absolue. Dans ses articles de l'Écho de Paris, puis de l'Époque (qu'il fonde en 1937), il ne cesse d'en appeler déjà à la résistance, annonçant la guerre qui vient et prônant la modernisation de l'armée. À l'arrivée des Allemands à Paris, il s'envole pour Londres, puis rejoint New York où il crée un journal gaulliste, Pour la victoire, avec Geneviève Tabouis. À partir de 1942, les malentendus s'accumulent avec le chef de la France libre, dont il devient un farouche opposant. Dès lors Kerillis, qui a acheté une ferme, vit en exilé sur ses terres de Long Island. Lui qui fut, dans les années 30, l'« un des rois de Paris », élève des vaches et cultive des pommes de terre, tout en continuant à entretenir, jusqu'à sa mort en avril 1958, une correspondance passionnée avec ses amis de France. Une France dont il était, envers et contre tout, « fou amoureux » selon le mot de Maurice Schumann.

Facing fascism : the Conservative party and the European dictators, 1935-1940
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ISBN: 1280109475 9786610109470 1134742606 0203442687 9780203442685 9781134742608 0203750926 9780203750926 6610109478 9780415153157 9780203442685 0415153158 9781134742554 113474255X 9781134742592 1134742592 9780415757058 0415757053 Year: 1997 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

The Soviets, the Munich Crisis, and the coming of World War II
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ISBN: 9780511511912 9780521830300 9780521099189 0511511914 051116579X 9780511165795 9780511163869 051116386X 0511165323 9780511165320 1280437693 9781280437694 0511164661 9780511164668 9786610437696 6610437696 0521830303 0521099188 1107148111 0511312776 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Munich crisis is everywhere acknowledged as the prelude to World War II. If Hitler had been stopped at Munich then World War II as we know it could not have happened. The subject has been thoroughly studied in British, French and German documents and consequently we know that the weakness in the Western position at Munich consisted in the Anglo-French opinion that the Soviet commitment to its allies - France and Czechoslovakia - was utterly unreliable. What has never been seriously studied in the Western literature is the whole spectrum of East European documentation. This book targets precisely this dimension of the problem. The Romanians were at one time prepared to admit the transfer of the Red Army across their territory. The Red Army, mobilised on a massive scale, was informed that its destination was Czechoslovakia. The Polish consul in Lodavia reported the entrance of the Red Army into the country. In the meantime, Moscow focused especially on the Polish rail network. All of these findings are new, and they contribute to a considerable shift in the conventional wisdom on the subject.


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Churchill, Chamberlain and appeasement
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ISBN: 1009202014 1009201972 1009201999 1009201980 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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Was Churchill correct when he claimed the Second World War could easily have been prevented if Chamberlain had not appeased Hitler? How far did Churchill and Chamberlain differ on defence and foreign policy? To what extent was Chamberlain responsible for military defeats in 1940? In this new account of appeasement, G. C. Peden addresses these questions and provides a comparative analysis of Chamberlain and Churchill's views on foreign policy and strategic priorities, explores what deterrence and appeasement meant in the military, economic and political context of the 1930s and where Chamberlain and Churchill agreed and disagreed on how best to deter Germany. Beginning in 1931 when Chamberlain became Chancellor of the Exchequer, this book explores the evolution of British policy towards Germany through to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath within the context of Britain's power to influence international affairs in the 1930s and of contemporary intelligence.


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In the shadow of Munich : British policy towards Czechoslovakia from the endorsement to the renunciation of the Munich agreement (1938-1942)
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ISBN: 8024628198 9788024628196 8024613735 9788024613734 9788024613734 Year: 2014 Publisher: Prague : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press,

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The book In the Shadow of Munich. British Policy towards Czechoslovakia from the Endorsement to the Renunciation of the Munich Agreement (1938 to 1942) analyses the varying attitudes and gradual change of British policy towards Czechoslovakia in the period from the Munich Conference in September 1938 to August 1942 when the British government proclaimed the Munich Agreement as dead and thus having no influence whatsoever on the future territorial settlement. The key focus of this work lies in the influence of 'Munich' upon the British political scene and upon the resulting British policy toward

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