New York: Tim Duggan Books, 2019. Uncorrected Proof of the First U.S. Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. xii, 448 pages. Occasional Footnotes. Notes. Very slightly cocked. (Uncorrected proof does not have the bibliography or the index.) A New York Times Editors' Choice and Sunday Times (UK) Bestseller. A gripping new history of the British appeasement of Hitler on the eve of World War II. An eye-opening narrative that makes for exciting but at times uncomfortable reading as one reflects on possible lessons for the present--Antonia Fraser, author of Mary Queen of Scots. Tim Bouverie studied history at Christ Church, Oxford. Between 2013 and 2017 he was a political journalist for Channel 4 News in the UK. He regularly reviews books on history and politics for The Spectator, The Observer, and The Daily Telegraph. He lives in London. Bouverie's first book, Appeasing Hitler, was published by Bodley Head in April 2019. Appeasing Hitler [this work was entitled Appeasement in the U.S.] was a Sunday Times Bestseller and described as an "astonishingly accomplished debut" by Antony Beevor. Appeasement, in an international context, is a diplomatic negotiation policy of making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power with intention to avoid conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy between 1935 and 1939 of the British governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin and most notably Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Under British pressure, appeasement of Nazism and Fascism also played a role in French foreign policy of the period but was always much less popular there than in the United Kingdom. More