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Dilks, David Neville was born on March 17, 1938. Son of Neville Ernest and Phyllis (Follows) Dilks.
( Neville Chamberlain remains one of the most controversi...)
Neville Chamberlain remains one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century British politics. For many years he was admired, even revered, throughout Britain. After serving as Prime Minister, however, Chamberlain left office a reviled and disdained public figure. This book seeks to explain these extremes while offering the author's assessment of what Chamberlain's historical reputation ought to be.
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( Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germ...)
Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germany has been widely condemned. However, historians (and politicians) have been divided about the viability of alternative courses of action. Andrew David Stedman's illuminating new study of British foreign policy before World War II systematically analyzes the various alternatives to appeasement -- from isolationism to collective security to outright war -- and examines their origins, risks, and feasibility. It surveys the advocates of other strategies -- including key thinkers and decision-makers such as Churchill, Eden, Amery, Beaverbrook, and Halifax -- and outlines the complexities of the decisions they faced, which have previously been largely overlooked. Marking a valuable new contribution to appeasement historiography, this is the first work to synthesize all the alternatives available to Chamberlain, as well as to illuminate policy debate within the British government. Stedman provides a vigorous analysis of Chamberlain's assessment of each rival policy, and shows why ultimately, he opted for appeasement. Also contributing to debates on the use of appeasement in the modern world, this book will be essential reading for historians of World War II and the twentieth century, as well as scholars of International Relations.
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Sir Alexander Cadogan was one of the most outstanding civil servants Britain has ever known. He kept a diary from 1933 until the year of his death, 1968, at the age of eighty-three. This volume concentrates on the crucial years from 1938 to 1945. In 1938 Sir Alexander became the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office. He was to hold that position for the next eight years. As chief adviser to three Foreign Secretaries, Eden (for two periods), Halifax and Bevin, working under three Prime Ministers in Chamberlain, Churchill and Attlee, Cadogan had longer consecutive service at the centre of British affairs than any of them. His tenure of office lasted from the first rumblings of the Czechoslovak and Munich crises through the entire war years to the establishment of the United Nations Organization (in the birth of which - and later as Britain's Permanent Representative - he had a profound and formative role admired on both sides of the Iron Curtain). As head of the Foreign Office, trusted and respected by statesmen and colleagues alike for his calm courage, integrity and 'common sense and judgement carried to the point where they almost amounted to genius', Cadogan played a vital part in the conduct and decision-making if his country's affairs. For eight years he attended the most important Cabinet and Cabinet Committee meetings, ran a great Department of State, and accompanied Churchill on his many wartime journeys to the Big Power conferences at Washington, Moscow, Cairo, Tehran and Yalta. Sir Alexander's meticulously kept private record of those years is a document of the highest historical value. It illumines the workings of the Foreign Office and the Cabinet, the conduct of alliances and international diplomacy at a time of unparalleled importance. From these diaries and the more personal 'diary letters' sent by Sir Alexander to his wife when he travelled abroad, David Dilks has produced a book of lasting importance. On 15 August 1945, with the announcement of the Japanese surrender, Cadogan wrote: ' . . . here is the culmination. The problems in front of us are manifold and awful. But I've lived through England's finest hour . . . ' In essence, The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan are a record of the part played in that hour by one of England's finest servants.
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(This is the first volume of a major two-volume biography ...)
This is the first volume of a major two-volume biography of Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940), which matches his ample collection of private papers against the public records, and brings in from other collections of papers letters written to or by Chamberlain. This first volume tells the story of the first sixty years of Chamberlain's life. As well as his role in national politics, it covers his endeavours to prove himself in a different sphere by building up his business concerns in Birmingham, and through service to the city. Chamberlain's family letters and diaries are freely drawn upon. There is much material about Chamberlain's personal relations with his half-brother Austen, Lloyd George, Baldwin and Churchill. Chamberlain is revealed as a figure of wide culture, many international connections, and much reserve in his personal dealings, but with astonishing energy and resourcefulness in administration and boldness in policy.
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(As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, i...)
As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain's diary letters to his sisters. They represent the most complete and illuminating 'insider' record of British politics between the wars yet to be published. From 1915 Chamberlain wrote detailed weekly epistles to his sisters until his death in 1940; a confidential account of events covering the quarter of a century during which he stood at the very centre of Conservative and national politics. Beyond the fascination of the historical record of people and events, these letters are extremely valuable for the remarkable light they throw upon the personality and character of the private man lurking behind the austerely forbidding public persona. Volume four covers the years 1934 to 1940, which witnessed Chamberlain's rise within Government, leading to his replacement of Stanley Baldwin as Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party in 1937. As well as Chamberlain's reaction to the Civil War in Spain, the momentous events of 1938 and 1939 are covered in detail. Chamberlain's visits to Germany in September 1939 and his views on war, appeasement, Britain's military position and Hitler's intentions all receive much analysis, as does the run up to the declaration of war in September 1939. The book concludes with the events of 1940, including the Dunkirk evacuations, Chamberlain's resignation as Prime Minister, and the final months before his death in October.
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(As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, i...)
As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain's diary letters to his sisters.They represent the most complete and illuminating 'insider' record of British politics between the wars yet to be published.From 1915 Chamberlain wrote detailed weekly epistles to his sisters until his death in 1940; a confidential account of events covering the quarter of a century during which he stood at the very centre of Conservative and national politics.Beyond the fascination of the historical record of people and events, these letters are extremely valuable for the remarkable light they throw upon the personality and character of the private man lurking behind the austerely forbidding public persona. Volume one covers the crucial formative period from Chamberlain's election as Lord Mayor of Birmingham, through his ill-fated emergence on the national stage as head of the newly-created Department of National Service in 1917 to his entry to the Commons at the age of fifty where as a backbencher he swiftly established a claim to advancement.
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(As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, i...)
As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain's diary letters to his sisters.They represent the most complete and illuminating 'insider' record of British politics between the wars yet to be published.From 1915 Chamberlain wrote detailed weekly epistles to his sisters until his death in 1940; a confidential account of events covering the quarter of a century during which he stood at the very centre of Conservative and national politics.Beyond the fascination of the historical record of people and events, these letters are extremely valuable for the remarkable light they throw upon the personality and character of the private man lurking behind the austerely forbidding public persona.
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(As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, i...)
As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, it is difficult to overstate the value and importance of Neville Chamberlain's diary letters to his sisters.They represent the most complete and illuminating 'insider' record of British politics between the wars yet to be published.From 1915 Chamberlain wrote detailed weekly epistles to his sisters until his death in 1940; a confidential account of events covering the quarter of a century during which he stood at the very centre of Conservative and national politics.Beyond the fascination of the historical record of people and events, these letters are extremely valuable for the remarkable light they throw upon the personality and character of the private man lurking behind the austerely forbidding public persona.
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professor of international history
Dilks, David Neville was born on March 17, 1938. Son of Neville Ernest and Phyllis (Follows) Dilks.
Bachelor in History, Oxford University, 1959. Doctor (honorary), Academy of Sciences Moscow, 1996.
Assistant lecturer, lecturer LSE 1962-1970, Professor, of Institute History, University of Leeds 1970-1991. Vice-Chancellor University of Hull since 1991. Chair, and Founder Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council 1968-1973, Chairman School of History, University of Leeds 1974-1979, Dean Faculty of Arts, University of Leeds 1975-1977.
(This is the first volume of a major two-volume biography ...)
(As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, i...)
(As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, i...)
(As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, i...)
(As a primary source of historical evidence and insight, i...)
(Neville Chamberlain has suffered from the reputation as a...)
( Neville Chamberlain remains one of the most controversi...)
( Sir Alexander Cadogan was one of the most outstanding c...)
( Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing Hitler's Germ...)
Chairman Commonwealth Youth Exchange Council, London, 1968-1973. Trustee Edward Boyle Memorial Trust, 1982-1995, Imperial War Museum, 1983-1990, Lennox-Boyd Trust, 1984-1993, Nathaniel Trust, 1986-1990. Member academy advisory council Hughenden Foundation, London, 1986.
Fellow Royal History Society. Member Leeds Defense Studies Dining Club (chairman 1977-1990), Brooks's Club, Special Forces Club.
Married Jill Medlicott, August 15, 1963. 1 child, Richard.