| Description |
1 online resource (320 pages) |
| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Origins of the Imperial Appeasement Policy; 2 Friendship with All: Australia's Radical Appeasement Plan; 3 Implementing Appeasement: Chamberlain, Bruce and Lyons; 4 Menzies Embraces Appeasement; 5 Not Worth a War: The Sudetenland Crisis; 6 Back from the Brink of War: The Australian Intervention; 7 Pursuing General Appeasement: Munich to Prague; 8 Persisting with Appeasement: Prague to Danzig; 9 To Negotiate or Fight? The Polish Crisis; 10 Last Days to War: Reluctant Warriors; 11 A Judgement; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
On 3 September 1939, Robert Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, broadcast to the Australian people the news that their country was at war with Germany. He outlined how every effort had been made to maintain the peace by keeping the door open to a negotiated settlement. However, as these efforts had failed, the British Empire was now 'involved in a struggle which we must at all costs win, and which we believe in our hearts we will win'. Christopher Waters here examines Australia's role in Britain's policy of appeasement from the time Hitler came to power in 1933 through to the declaration o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Causes.
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European history.
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War -- Causes
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Foreign relations -- 1900-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009589
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1910-1936.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056715
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1936-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056716
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857720672 |
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0857720678 |
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9781848859982 |
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1848859988 |
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9780755625871 |
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0755625870 |
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