Munich: The Price of Peace
by Telford Taylor
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Taylor traces the military and diplomatic alignments and machinations in Europe from Versailles to Munich and its aftermath. Controversy still swirls around the Munich Agreement, which Taylor analyzes with rare objectivity and insight, in a narrative leavened with grace and humor. He has tapped numerous sources heretofore overlooked or unavailable-with surprising and enlightening results. "many factors and many men had a hand in the Munich espisode. But in this drama there were two leading show more actors-Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler. In that sense this is a book about those two men." It is Chamberlain-whose name today is a synonym for "appeasement" and who is widely pictured as a pathetic old dodderer with an umbrella-who emerges in Taylor's work as an able and resolute leader and the dominant figure in the tragedy that was Munich. show lessTags
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Only read the first 100 pages of this very big book. Unfortunately for me author is covering territory i'm already well tuned in to. Only additions in this title were i thought random observations.
Dispels the general thought of Chamberlain as weak. Chamberlain was motivated by the loss of so many British men, often an entire generation from a British town.
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Telford Taylor (1908-1998) graduated from Williams College and Harvard Law School. During World War II, he served in Europe as a US Army intelligence officer and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. After the Nuremberg trials, Taylor practiced law in New York City, taught at Columbia Law School and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, and show more published a number of books, including Munich: The Price of Peace, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best nonfiction work in 1979. show less
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