This book is first-rate. There is barely a page on the 1930s which does not resonate today, as the U.K. struggled to build a grand strategy against simultaneous threats in Europe and Asia, with unreliable allies in Europe and the USA, and all…. 
….against a backdrop of economic austerity. There, not on facile equations of Hitler with Putin, is where the real analogies between the 1930s and today operate.
Everyone interested in U.K. defence and strategy should read this book.
Ends.
Everyone interested in U.K. defence and strategy should read this book.
Ends.
PS Chamberlain is portrayed as a second-rate figure, convinced of his own rectitude and unwilling to listen to critics or even to accept that the world as he wanted it to be and the world as it is may not be the same.
Can’t imagine why that rings bells today.
Can’t imagine why that rings bells today.
PPS and all the politicians in the 30s are following (what they believe to be) public opinion rather than having the moral courage to attempt to lead and mould it.
That really is all, apologies
That really is all, apologies
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