| Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War | |
| Border: | yes |
| Author: | Tim Bouverie |
| Audio Read By: | John Sessions[1] |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | British appeasement of Adolf Hitler |
| Publisher: | The Bodley Head |
| Pub Date: | 18 April 2019 |
| Media Type: | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages: | 512 |
| Isbn: | 978-1-84792-440-7 |
| Isbn Note: | (hardcover) |
| Dewey: | 327.41043 |
| Congress: | DA47.2 .B685 2019 |
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War, is a 2019 book by Tim Bouverie about the British policy of appeasement of Hitler in the 1930s.
Bouverie explains the policy as a product of the British response to the First World War. Given that an enormous percentage of Britain's fighting-age men had died in a war the purpose of which no one could perceive, Bouverie describes British pacifism as the explanation of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, since "The desire to avoid a Second World War was perhaps the most understandable and universal wish in history."[2] Bouverie describes the antisemitism of the British ruling class as the secondary cause of Britain's reluctance to stand up to Hitler.[2]
The book is a strong response to a number of recent works of historical revisionism that have painted Chamberlain as a "super-pragmatist", much maligned since his options were limited by widespread popular pacifism and also painting him as a man who cleverly used appeasement to gain time that would enable Britain to rearm.[3]