... about this dramatic crisis, day by day, hour by hour, using diary entries, diplomatic notes, press clippings, etc. Faber writes extremely well, and -- according to the back flap -- he's a grandson of former PM Harold Macmillan, who's quoted here and there; that's interesting. I happened upon the book because I'd seen it referred to, obviously as an authoritative source, in several other books on Munich. However, despite the book's evident virtues, I was left a little disappointed. First of all, Faber's narrative pretty much comes to an abrupt stop upon the resolution of the crisis in early October in Parliament; I'd been hoping for something about how, for example, Kristallnacht may have begun to alter British public opinion, to say nothing of the Nazis' takeover of the rest of Czechoslovakia less than six months after Munich, which made the appeasers (and their celebrants in the press) look rather foolish. Not only does Faber's narrative stop dead, with no overview, no look back, no analysis... but it also lacks, in its very straightness and objectivity, the sort of edge I'd hoped for. This is, in other words, like an expanded version of a very good, dry, fair-minded, thorough, well-researched Wikipedia article, without a particular point of view. I don't mean to knock objectivity, but a little opinion here and there, a little editorializing, and/or a little wit -- the sort of thing a historian like Andrew Roberts would bring to the subject -- might have made it "Munich, 1938" a bit more enjoyable to read.Read full review
From the historians point of view, this book is a way to understand how the allies fail to see what were Hittlers real intentions as far as Europe domination.You can come to your own conclusions of how the allies should really have preceded.
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