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Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War

Categorie	WO II
Boeknummer	#251900
Titel	Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War
Auteur	Kershaw, Ian
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London, Allen Lane/Penguin
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	0713997176
ISBN13	9780713997170
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	Britain, as the most powerful of the European victors of World War One, had a unique responsibility to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the Treaty of Versailles. The outbreak of a second, even more catastrophic war in 1939 has therefore always raised painful questions about Britain's failure to deal with Nazism. Could some other course of action have destroyed Hitler when he was still weak? In this highly disturbing new book, Ian Kershaw examines this crucial issue. He concentrates on the figure of Lord Londonderry grandee, patriot, cousin of Churchill and the government minister responsible for the RAF at a crucial point in its existence. Londonderry's reaction to the rise of Hitler - to pursue friendship with the Nazis at all costs - raises fundamental questions about Britain's rol... (Lees verder)e in the 1930s and whether in practice there was ever any possibility of preventing Hitler's leading Europe once again into war.
Pagina's	488
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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