Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s. It analyses and interprets the reasons which underlay those attitudes. Aided by the evidence of the weeklies, it sheds additional light on the roots and development of appeasement. After introducing the weeklies and their editors, the study conveys and examines their attitudes to the European crises of 1935-9 and one chapter focusses on the popular fear of air attack as reflected in the journals. The major conclusion of the book is that a consensus supporting appeasement emerged in the weeklies in the course of 1935 and that it remained virtually intact until September 1938.

Benny Morris, who has taught at Ben-Gurion University in Israel and Georgetown University in the US, has published a dozen books on Middle Eastern history, including 1948, A History of the First Arab-Israeli War (which won The National Jewish Book Award) and - co-authored with Prof. Dror Ze'evi - The Thirty-Year Genocide, Turkey's Destruction of its Christian Minorities, 1894-1924.

Originally published in 1991, The Roots of Appeasement outlines the attitudes of the British weekly press and its editors to Nazism and to German and British foreign policies during the 1930s. It analyses and interprets the reasons which underlay those attitudes. Aided by the evidence of the weeklies, it sheds additional light on the roots and development of appeasement. After introducing the weeklies and their editors, the study conveys and examines their attitudes to the European crises of 1935-9 and one chapter focusses on the popular fear of air attack as reflected in the journals. The major conclusion of the book is that a consensus supporting appeasement emerged in the weeklies in the course of 1935 and that it remained virtually intact until September 1938.

1. Introduction 2. The Weeklies in the 1930s 3. The Air Fear 4. February - June 1935 5. Abyssinia, The Rhineland and Spain 6. 1938 - The Anschluss and the Czech Crisis 7. 1939 8. Conclusion.