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Goddard, Stacie E. "The rhetoric of appeasement: Hitler's legitimation and British foreign policy, 1938–39." Security Studies 24.1 (2015): 95–130. Hill C., Cabinet Decisions on Foreign Policy: The British Experience, October 1938 – June 1941, (1991). Hucker, Daniel. Public Opinion and the End of Appeasement in Britain and France ...
Propaganda: The art of persuasion: World War II. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. Hertzstein, Robert Edwin (1978). The War That Hitler Won. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 0-399-11845-4. Balfour, Michael (1979). Propaganda in War 1939-1945: Organisation, Policies and Publics in Britain and Germany. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
Why England Slept (1940) is the published version of a thesis written by John F. Kennedy in his senior year at Harvard College. Its title alludes to Winston Churchill 's 1938 book Arms and the Covenant , published in the United States as While England Slept , which also examined the buildup of German power. [ 1 ]
On 23 August 1939, Chamberlain had Henderson deliver a letter to Hitler telling him that Britain was fully prepared to comply with its obligations to Poland. [169] Hitler instructed his generals to prepare for an invasion of Poland, telling them, "Our enemies are small worms. I saw them at Munich." [168]
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938–1941 (2020) Bousquet, Ben and Colin Douglas. West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II (1991) online Archived 22 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine; Bryce, Robert Broughton (2005). Canada and the cost of World War II. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735 ...
Summer, 1940: The Battle of Britain. David McKay Co. ISBN 0-679-50756-6. Pinkus, Oscar (2005). The War Aims and Strategies of Adolf Hitler. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-2054-5. Raeder, Erich (2001) Erich Rader, Grand Admiral: The Personal Memoir of the Commander in Chief of the German Navy From 1935 Until His Final Break With Hitler in 1943. New York ...
The Allies of World War II began to form in September 1939 when Poland was invaded and Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany.Except for Ireland, which remained neutral throughout the war, the Commonwealth Dominions (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa) all declared war alongside Great Britain but no other nations joined their cause.
During World War II, there were several peace overtures and diplomatic efforts aimed at ending the conflict or reaching a settlement, though most were unsuccessful due to the uncompromising positions of the major belligerents. Winston Churchill steadfastly refused to consider any form of settlement.