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The End is Nigh - British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War (Hardcover)
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The End is Nigh - British Politics, Power, and the Road to the Second World War (Hardcover)
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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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