On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke to the crowds at 10 Downing Street: 'My good friends ... I believe it is peace for our time. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Go home and get a nice quiet sleep.' Winston Churchill commented dryly: 'We have chosen shame and will get war.' Pierre Caquet's history of the events leading to the Munich Agreement and its aftermath is told for the first time from the point of view of the peoples of Czechoslovakia and the many Germans and others (including Thomas Mann) who had taken refuge there from the Nazis. Basing his account on countless previously unexamined sources including the press, memoirs, private journals, military plans, parliamentary records, film and radio, Pierre Caquet presents the familiar tale of one of the most shameful episodes in modern European history in a tragic new shape.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Profile Books
ISBN-13
9781781257104
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8046693965
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
The Bell of Treason: the 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Publication Year
2018
Subject
History
Type
Textbook
Author
P.E. Caquet
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
240 mm
Item Weight
576 g
Item Width
162 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Title_Author
P.E. Caquet
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