The End Is Nigh: British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War

ISBN-13: 9780198823698 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 304 str.

Robert Crowcroft

Opis

The tale of the relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War, exploring the interaction between Westminster and a world primed to explode.

Recenzje

In a savage and subtle critique of historical self-regard, Robert Crowcroft brilliantly sums up the problem with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy ... Here the revisionists are revised: the indictment of Chamberlain is that he knew what ought not to be done but did it anyway. It will not alter the authorised version of our heroic struggle, but this echo of Maurice Cowling deserves to be heard wherever sceptics listen.

O autorze

Robert Crowcroft is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh. Educated at the University of Leeds, he has published widely in British political history and has particular interests in leadership, the character of democratic politics, and the Second World War. His first book, Attlee's War: World War II and the Making of a Labour Leader (I.B. Tauris, 2011), was named one of the best books of 2011 in Total Politics magazine. His recent publications (as co-editor) include The Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 (OUP, 2018) and the latest edition of the popular reference book The Oxford Companion to British History (OUP, 2015).