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Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War - Couverture rigide

Kershaw, Ian

 
9780713997170: Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry and Britain's Road to War
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ISBN 10 : 0713997176 ISBN 13 : 9780713997170
Editeur : Allen Lane, 2004

Synopsis

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 RAF at a crucial point in its existence. Londonderry's reaction to the rise of Hitler-to pursue friendship with the Nazis at all costs-raises fundamental questions about Britain's role in the 1930s and whether in practice there was ever any possibility of preventing Hitler's leading Europe once again into war.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sir Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield.

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Éditeur
Allen Lane
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0713997176
ISBN 13 
9780713997170
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
512
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