British Appeasement

I am not sure at what level you are studying, but here are a few books I found very useful when tacking the subject of ‘appeasement' in the 1930’s….as Parnell has noted, Taylor is a very good place to start...hope this is helpful…

..all the best….AoO..

Martel, Gordon. (ed) The Origins of the Second World War Reconsidered, The A.J.P. Taylor Debate after Twenty Five Years (Allen and Unwin Inc, London) 1986.

Marwick, Arthur Emsley Clive, and Simpson, Wendy. (eds) Total War and Historical Change: Europe 1914-1955 (Open University Press, Buckingham) 2001.

Overy, R J. The Origins of the Second World War (Longman Group UK Limited, Harlow) 1987.

Watt, Donald Cameron. How War Came (Mandarin, London) 1990.

Young, John W. Britain and the World in the Twentieth Century (Arnold, London) 1997.

Keith Middlemas Diplomacy of Illusion (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971)

Sydney Aster ‘Guilty Men’: The Case of Neville Chamberlain in Robert Boyce and Esmonde M Robertson (eds) Paths to War, New Essays on the Origins of the Second World War (London, 1989)

Ian Colvin The Chamberlain Cabinet (London, 1971)

R. A .C . Parker The Failure of Collective Security in British Appeasement in Wolfgang J Mommsen and Lothar Kettenacker The Fascist Challenge and the Policy of Appeasement (London, 1983)

C. J. Bartlett British Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century (London, 1989)