Andrew Roberts
Appeasing Adolf
Making Friends with Hitler: Lord Londonderry, The Nazis and the Road to War
By Ian Kershaw
Allen Lane The Penguin Press 476pp £20
EVEN AT THE distance of seventy years there is still fascination with the question of what could possibly have persuaded so many among the British aristocracy of the 1930s that Adolf Hitler needed to be appeased. Even after the moment in mid-March 1939 when his invasion of the rump of Czechoslovakia showed that the Führer had clearly been lying when he had said he only wanted to gather Aryans, and not Slavs, into the Third Reich, the desire for appeasement continued in some upper-class circles.
Were they Fascists themselves, or 'fellow travellers of the Right'? Had their families' bravery and political leadership simply been blown away two decades earlier on the Somme? Did their fear and hatred of Bolshevism blind them to a mirror-image danger from Nazism? Were they just too dim to spot the
Sign Up to our newsletter
Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more.@Lit_Review
Follow Literary Review on Twitter
Twitter Feed
London's East End was long synonymous with poverty and sweatshops, while its West End was associated with glamour and high society. But when it came to the fashion industry, were the differences really so profound?
Sharman Kadish - Winkle-pickers & Bum Freezers
Sharman Kadish: Winkle-pickers & Bum Freezers - Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style; Fashion City: ...
literaryreview.co.uk
In 1982, Donald Rumsfeld presented Saddam Hussein with a pair of golden spurs. Two decades later he was dropping bunker-busting bombs on his palaces.
Where did the US-Iraqi relationship go wrong?
Rory Mccarthy - The Case of the Vanishing Missiles
Rory Mccarthy: The Case of the Vanishing Missiles - The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the ...
literaryreview.co.uk
Barbara Comyns was a dog breeder, a house painter, a piano restorer, a landlady... And a novelist.
@nclarke14 on the lengths 20th-century women writers had to go to make ends meet:
Norma Clarke - Her Family & Other Animals
Norma Clarke: Her Family & Other Animals - Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence by Avril Horner
literaryreview.co.uk