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A Historical Mistake? |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Herb Greer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,769 Words, 17,423 Characters |
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CHURCHILL'S GRAND ALLIANCE
John Charmley
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995
427 pp., $26.00
John Charmley is a historian of some reputation who, on his own rather smug account, underwent a sort of road-to-Damascus conversion over prewar British appeasement of Hitler. On reading the archives, he seems to have convinced himself that such a policy was not bad at all. Appeasement was not only possible to continue but would have been far better than what he portrays as Churchill's obsequiousness toward the Americans. In his view, a British accommodation with Hitler would have been not just desirable but a sine qua non if the United Kingdom wished to remain a "great power."
Charmley believes the Nazi assertion that the British were not really enemies of the Reic...
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...covery after the war.
FOOTNOTE: 2."Experience" let Anthony Eden down badly when he attempted to schmooze Nasser by speaking classical Arabic and discoursing on Islam; Nasser and his entourage took it as a patronizing insult.
FOOTNOTE: 3."Suez: The Unwashed Slate," Diana Schaub, National Interest (Fall 1986). FOOTNOTE: 4.See my "Amantium Irae" in the Fall 1994 issue of World Affairs. vbcrlf
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