On Sept. 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement in which Britain, France and Italy agreed to give Nazi Germany the Sudetenland, a German-speaking portion of ...
There’s a scene at the start of Robert Harris’s novel Munich, about the 1938 Munich Agreement, in which the dire state of Britain’s pre-war defences are described. One by one, the chiefs of staff tell ...