Neville Chamberlain (Routledge Historical Biographies) - Hardcover

Smart, Nick (University Of Plymouth, UK)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415367972 ISBN 13: 9780415367974

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Neville Chamberlain, the Conservative Prime Minister who pursued the doomed policy of appeasing Hitler, is one of the most reinterpreted of modern British Prime Ministers.

Infamous on account of his declaration of having achieved ‘peace for our time’, Neville Chamberlain has often been portrayed as a social reformer out of sync with the times in which he lived. In this new biography, Nick Smart offers a picture conditioned more by the opinions of contemporaries than by hindsight, examining Chamberlain's life, career, achievements and failures. Stressing that the system in which Chamberlain found himself operating had more impact on the historical developments than anything he did personally, Smart describes a man who was hardworking but ultimately out of his depth, destined to be remembered in history as the fall-guy to Winston Churchill’s hero.

Presenting Chamberlain's life and politics in a nuanced way, Nick Smart's biography is a must read for anyone interested in British politics and its impact on the international stage.

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Nick Smart is Lecturer in History at the University of Plymouth.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415367972
• ISBN 13: 9780415367974
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 314
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