Arthur James Balfour possessed intellect and charm in legendary abundance. On becoming Prime Minister in 1902, it seemed that he had come into his inheritance as a true grandee. He held office longer than any other Cabinet minister and, in a fifty-year career, dealt with successes and defeats with similar equanimity. When he chose, he retreated into the insulated worlds of family, friends and ideas, and in each he was the unquestioned centre.

Balfour

R. J. Q. Adams

Biographies & Memoirs

Hodder Hb

British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935-39

The goal of British governments in the interwar period was balance among the European great powers - balance which would restore peace as well as a British prosperity based once again upon international trade. in the end, these grim years brought only economic depression and the challenge posed by the fascist dictatorships in Germany and Italy.

History

Europe

Stanford University Press

The goal of the British governments in the interwar period was balance among the European great powers―balance which would restore peace as well as a British prosperity based once again upon international trade. In the end, these grim years brought only economic depression and the challenge posed by the fascist dictatorships in Germany and Italy. In British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935-39, historian R.J.Q. Adams examines the policy of appeasement―so frequently praised as realistic and statesmanlike in its day and commonly condemned as wrong-headed and even wicked in ours. In this exciting and thoroughly accessible work, he explains the motivations and goals of the principal policy-makers: Neville Chamberlain, Lord Halifax, Sir John Simon, and Sir Samuel Hoare, and of their major critics: Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Duff Cooper, and Sir Robert Vansittart. He discloses the myths which obscure our understanding of the Stresa Front, British rearmament, the Anglo-French alliance and the highest moment of appeasement―Munich.

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Balfour

British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935-39

British Politics and Foreign Policy in the Age of Appeasement, 1935-39