1. Neville Chamberlain: personality and policy -- 2. Rearmament and reparations -- 3. British policy and the league: Manchuria and Ethiopia -- 4. The Rhineland crisis and colonies 1936-1937 -- 5. The Spanish Civil War: British opinion and policy -- 6. Chamberlain and Eden -- 7. Chamberlain and Halifax: March -- August 1938 -- 8. Munich -- 9. From Munich to Prague -- 11. Making a "peace front": April -- August 1939 -- 12. Confronting Italy, Japan and Germany: April -- August 1939 -- 13. Arms and the economy -- 14. Resources for war: the British dominions and the United States -- 15. Alternatives to appeasement -- 16. Outbreak of war -- 17. Conclusion