Tim Bouverie On Appeasement

Writer and broadcaster Tim Bouverie discusses his new book, Appeasing Hitler, a compelling new narrative history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Nazi domination of Europe.
Drawing on deep archival research, including previously unseen sources, this is an unforgettable portrait of the ministers, aristocrats and amateur diplomats who, through their actions and inaction, shaped their country’s policy and determined the fate of Europe.
Both sweeping and intimate, this eye-opening history is also a timeless lesson on the challenges of standing up to aggression and authoritarianism - and the calamity that results from failing to do so.
Tim Bouverie was a political journalist at Channel 4 News from 2013-2017, covering all major political events, including both the 2015 and 2017 General Elections and the EU Referendum. He regularly reviews history and politics books, and has written for the Spectator, Observer and Daily Telegraph. For the last five years he has interviewed high-profile politicians at the Chalke Valley History Festival.

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What a delight to find this video since I was actually in the audience and can see the back of my head bobbing about.

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Excellent!

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The first thing you say on the subject is an ideological question, and such questions are favourites of academics on this subject - supposed ideological explanations, anything that supports the idea that there was a policy which needs explaining, in other words needs academics to explain it. Academics have not explained it, being rather reluctant to allow it explain itself. It has, by Phibbs, Henderson, Eden, Douglas Home, MI5 and Chamberlain. And books by me on the subject will be available at the British library, PH.d - Phibbs, Henderson and Douglas Home, half the story in any case.