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The End is Nigh

British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War

By (author) Robert Crowcroft
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom
Published: 23rd May 2019
Dimensions: w 163mm h 240mm d 26mm
Weight: 534g
ISBN-10: 019882369X
ISBN-13: 9780198823698
Barcode No: 9780198823698
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Synopsis
Few decades have given rise to such potent mythologies as the 1930s. Popular impressions of those years prior to the Second World War were shaped by the single outstanding personality of that conflict, Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill depicted himself as a political prophet, exiled into the wilderness prior to 1939 by those who did not want to hear of the growing threats to peace in Europe. Although it is a familiar story, it is one we need to unlearn as the truth is somewhat murkier. The End is Nigh is a tale of relentless intrigue, burning ambition, and the bitter rivalry in British politics during the years preceding the Second World War. Journeying from the corridors of Whitehall to the smoking rooms of Parliament, and from aircraft factories to summit meetings with Hitler, the book offers a fresh and provocative interpretation of one of the most crucial moments of British history. It assembles a cast of iconic characters--Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Clement Attlee, Anthony Eden, Ernest Bevin, and more--to explore the dangerous interaction between high politics at Westminster and the formulation of national strategy in a world primed to explode. In the twenty-first century we are accustomed to being cynical about politicians, mistrusting what they say and wondering about their real motives, but Robert Crowcroft argues that this was always the character of democratic politics. In The End is Nigh he challenges some of the most resilient public myths of recent decades--myths that, even now, remain an important component of Britain's self-image.

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A penetrating, well-written study of the period... * Nigel Jones, BBC History Magazine * In a savage and subtle critique of historical self-regard, Robert Crowcroft brilliantly sums up the problem with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy ... Here the revisionists are revised: the indictment of Chamberlain is that he knew what ought not to be done but did it anyway. It will not alter the authorised version of our heroic struggle, but this echo of Maurice Cowling deserves to be heard wherever sceptics listen. * Christopher Montgomery, Standpoint *