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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.
In the mid-20th century, appeasement was seen as discredited in the United Kingdom due to its role in contributing to World War II. [ 105 ] Scholar Aaron McKeil pointed out that appeasement restraint against liberal interventionism would lead to more proxy wars, and fail to offer institutions and norms for mitigating great power conflict. [ 106 ]
British WWII propaganda poster during the Battle of Britain. During the Phoney War, the book Why Britain is at War sold a hundred thousand copies. [7]: 38 In 1940 in particular, Winston Churchill made many calls for the British to fight on, and for British units to fight until they died rather than submit. [10]
After World War I the League of Nations was formed in the hope that diplomacy and a united international community of nations could prevent another global war. [2] [3] However, the League and the appeasement of aggressive nations during the invasions of Manchuria, Ethiopia and the annexation of Czechoslovakia was largely considered ineffective.
Peace in Our Time is the title of a 1947 stage play by Noël Coward.Set in an alternative 1940, the Battle of Britain has been lost, the Germans have supremacy in the air and the United Kingdom is under Nazi occupation.
In exchange, Britain and France would guarantee the independence of Czechoslovakia. [citation needed] The Czechoslovaks rejected the proposal and the same day issued a warrant for Henlein's arrest. [citation needed] Chamberlain met Hitler again from 22 to 24 September in Bad Godesberg. Hitler increased his demands, but Chamberlain objected.
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 ...
Colin Powell stated that he did not think "betrayal is the appropriate word" regarding the Allies' role in the Warsaw Uprising. [8] While complaints of "betrayal" are common in politics generally, [9] the idea of a western betrayal can also be seen as a political scapegoat in both Central and Eastern Europe [10] [verification needed] and a partisan electioneering phrase among the former ...