In this book historian R.J.Q. Adams examines the policy of appeasement as practiced by British Governments in the inter-war years - a programme widely praised in its day and frequently condemned as wrong-headed and even wicked ever since. In this thoroughly accessible work, he reveals the motivations and goals of the men who practiced appeasement as well as of those who opposed it, and makes clear the road to Munich - and to war.

R. J. Q. ADAMS

Preface and Acknowledgements - List of Maps - Introduction: 1918-35 - 1935: Rearmament and Abyssinia - 1936: The Year of Three Kings - 1937: The Calm Before the Storm - 1938 i: Anschluss - 1938 ii: Munich - 1938-39: The End of Peace - Afterwords - Appendix 1: Results of the Peace Ballot - Appendix 2: the Munich Agreement - Dramatis Personae - Notes and References - Selected Bibliography - Index