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Cabinet's finest hour : the hidden agenda of May 1940 / David Owen.
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Owen, David, 1938-
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English
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London : Haus Publishing Ltd, 2016.
©2016
Description
xi, 276 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DA587 .O94 2016
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World War, 1939-1945
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Diplomatic history
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World War, 1939-1945
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Great Britain
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Great Britain
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Foreign relations
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Germany
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Summary note
"In May 1940, the British War Cabinet debated over the course of nine meetings a simple question: Should Britain fight on in the face of overwhelming odds, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives, or seek a negotiated peace? Using Cabinet papers from the United Kingdom's National Archives, David Owen illuminates in fascinating detail this little-known, yet pivotal, chapter in the history of World War II. Eight months into the war, defeat seemed to many a certainty. With the United States still a year and half away from entering, Britain found itself in a perilous position, and foreign secretary Lord Halifax pushed prime minister Winston Churchill to explore the possibility of a negotiated peace with Hitler, using Mussolini as a conduit. Speaking for England is the story of Churchill's triumph in the face of this pressure, but it is also about how collective debate and discussion won the day--had Churchill been alone, Owen argues, he would almost certainly have lost to Halifax, changing the course of history. Instead, the Cabinet system, all too often disparaged as messy and cumbersome, worked in Britain's interests and ensured that a democracy on the brink of defeat had the courage to fight on." --Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface
Speak for England
In the name of God, go!
The politics of the Coalition Government
The hidden agenda; minutes and documents; diaries
Speaking for all of us
Dunkirk and defiance
Epilogue: Prime Minister to President- conflict and the post-war cabinets.
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ISBN
9781910376553 (hardback)
1910376558 (hardback)
OCLC
961824867
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40026707198
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