1st Edition

The Roots of Appeasement The British Weekly Press and Nazi Germany During the 1930s

By Benny Morris Copyright 1991
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s. It analyses and interprets the reasons which underlay those attitudes. Aided by the evidence of the weeklies, it sheds additional light on the roots and development of appeasement. After introducing the... Read more

 

Biography

Benny Morris, who has taught at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and Georgetown University in the US, has published a dozen books on Middle Eastern history, including 1948, A History of the First Arab-Israeli War (which won The National Jewish Book Award) and - co-authored with Prof. Dror Ze'evi - The Thirty-Year Genocide, Turkey's Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924.