The authors challenge the familiar idea that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain accepted a compromise of appeasement with Adolf Hitler; and maintains that a bargain was struck whereby the West would not interfere with Germany in their attempt to carry their warfare to central and eastern Europe and into the Soviet Union.
Describes the month-long visit between President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in which the two heads of state planned the success of the Allied powers and celebrated Christmas.
Traces the key incidents leading up to the September 30, 1938 meeting of British Prime Minister Neville Chanberlain and German Chancellor Adolf Hitler at Munich and its immediate aftermath. Includes black-and-white photographs.
Recreates a sequence of ten decisions made by world leaders, including Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Mussolini, from 1940 to 1941 that changed the course of human history.
