Munich: Prologue To Tragedy
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some yellowing and light wear to covers. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Intact. Fold-out maps intact.
A landmark work of diplomatic history, Munich: Prologue to Tragedy presents a meticulously researched account of the 1938 Munich Agreement, one of the most catastrophic acts of appeasement in modern political history. Written with the authority of a scholar who lived through the era, Wheeler-Bennett chronicles the fateful negotiations between the Western powers and Hitler's Germany, unraveling the miscalculations and moral failures that allowed Nazi aggression to go unchecked. The book argues with devastating clarity that the capitulation at Munich, far from securing peace for our time, sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia and accelerated the march toward the Second World War. Authoritative, dramatic, and unflinching, it remains an essential text for understanding how democracies can fail in the face of totalitarian pressure.
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback with some yellowing and light wear to covers. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Intact. Fold-out maps intact.
A landmark work of diplomatic history, Munich: Prologue to Tragedy presents a meticulously researched account of the 1938 Munich Agreement, one of the most catastrophic acts of appeasement in modern political history. Written with the authority of a scholar who lived through the era, Wheeler-Bennett chronicles the fateful negotiations between the Western powers and Hitler's Germany, unraveling the miscalculations and moral failures that allowed Nazi aggression to go unchecked. The book argues with devastating clarity that the capitulation at Munich, far from securing peace for our time, sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia and accelerated the march toward the Second World War. Authoritative, dramatic, and unflinching, it remains an essential text for understanding how democracies can fail in the face of totalitarian pressure.
