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Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War
Ian Kershaw
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Description for Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War
Paperback. 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. This title concentrates on the figure of Lord Londonderry - grandee, patriot, cousin of Churchill and the government minister responsible for the RAF. Num Pages: 512 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 386.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141014234
SKU
V9780141014234
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99-1
About Ian Kershaw
Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield and one of the world's leading authorities on Hitler. For services to history he was given the German award of the Federal Cross of Merit in 1994 and knighted in 2002, and was awarded the Norton Medlicott Medal by the Historical Association in 2004. He is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War
A marvelous portrait... Absorbing, meticulously researched. ( The Times , London)