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22 August 2008 in Acquisitions, Books | 4 comments

Jeffry Record. The Specter of Munich: Reconsidering the Lessons of Appeasing Hitler. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2006. Generally speaking, I’m bored by the ritual invocation of Munich every time some foreign crisis dominates the headlines. But it’s not going to stop happening just because it bores me and it’s kinda my area (or adjacent to it, at least), so maybe I should pay more attention to it.

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23 August 2008 at 8:17 pm

Jakob

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Ian Kershaw looks the crisis of 1938 in this review article in today’s Guardian. I thought it might be of use - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/23/history.secondworldwar .

26 August 2008 at 4:09 pm

Brett Holman

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Thanks! This seems reasonable enough:

All in all, Chamberlain was dealt a terribly bad hand, which, however, he then proceeded to play badly through his mistaken assessment of Hitler’s aims and his over-eagerness to placate the dictator with territorial concessions.

I don’t mind reappraisals or reflections on Munich, more the ‘OMG Munich!!!!1′ that seems to be the default response of so many pundits …

26 August 2008 at 10:24 pm

CK

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Munich, blech. It’s all boiled down to Nazi Of The Week.

I hope this is the right link, but Margaret Lavinia Anderson from UC Berkley, gives a nice rundown to the development of the Czech crisis, and the readiness of the democracies to fight a major war.

http://webcast.berkeley.edu/stream.php?type=download&webcastid=21911

If it’s the wrong podcast I apologise. But she’s very good on the topic of nations states and Liberal-Democracies.

And UC Berkley’s podcasts are definitely worth a rummage around.

27 August 2008 at 5:59 pm

Brett Holman

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Thanks, CK, I’ll have to give that a listen when I get a chance …