Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index. viii, 221 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index. 217 pages ; 22 cm

Substantially altered translation of Tschechen und Deutsche. xiii, 334 pages 23 cm

Lit. opg. - Reg. xii, 241 p. ; 24 cm.

388 p.

Oorspr. versch. als diss. Tübingen, 1970. 284 p. ; 24 cm.

Lit. opg.: p. [203]-227. - Bibliogr.: p. [229]-234. - Index. XIII, 240 p., [8] p. pl. ; 23 cm.

Met een samenvatting in het Engels en lit. opg. 234 p. : ill. ; 21 cm

Lit. opg.: p. [622]-676. 691 p. ; 24 cm.

Focusing on the Royal Navy's response to the rise of the German navy under Hitler, this book examines the ongoing debate about Britain's policy of appeasement, casting new light on British naval intelligence and combining diplomatic events. "Published in association with King's College London." xii, 259 pages ; 23 cm.

Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germany has been widely condemned. However, historians (and politicians) have been divided about the viability of alternative courses of action. Andrew David Stedman here charts the origins, development and viability of the various alternatives to Chamberlain's policy of appeasement. Using a wide range of sources, many previously unpublished, he provides ...

The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policymakers have cravenly stood aside while whole villages and communities were erased from the face of the earth. Americans are appalled by the images on their television screens of the carnage, but most of us ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 87, Part 2. Release date, 10/24/1963. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Twenty Five Years Ago" A quarter of a century ago history recorded fifteen days of international crisis that forever shaped the destiny of man. There were riots in Sudetenland as pro-Hitler Germans backed his demand that this Czech territory and its people be returned to the Reich. ...

In this significant reassessment of Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon, Victor Rothwell makes use of newly available information to move beyond the evaluations of the two major biographies published since Eden's death in 1977. Focusing particularly on foreign policy, Rothwell reexamines the central episodes in Eden's career to provide a new picture of Eden the statesman. Eden's precise views on the appeasement ...

America's quagmire in Vietnam, France's preoccupation with overseas empire, Japan's attack on the United States, Germany's aggression in Europe, Britain's appeasement of Hitler - what motivated these bouts of self-defeating behavior? According to Charles A. Kupchan, all of these episodes are rooted in a common strategic logic. Building on extensive archival research, Kupchan offers a bold new explanation ...

"Extra! - Democracy Faces the Job - Roosevelt's Historic Report!" Sync of FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech. Congress hears FDR on: 1. Threat To America; 2. All-Out Aid To Democracies; 3. Billions In Arms Loans; 4. Four Essential World Aims. FDR speaking: "It is untrue that an unprepared America can hold off the whole world. On appeasement tactics: such a peace would bring us security; we cannot afford ...

"American and British appeasement of Nazism during the early years of the Third Reich went far beyond territorial concessions. In Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich, Stephen H. Norwood examines the numerous of ways that the two nations' official position of tacit acceptance of Jewish persecution enabled the policies that ultimately led to the Final ...

Besondere Benutzungsbedingungen Die Benutzung unterliegt keinen anderen Beschränkungen als der Beachtung von Persönlichkeitsschutzrechten Betroffener und Schutzwürdiger Belange Dritter.