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Episode 89, The British Empire, Part 4 of Rearmament.

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When discussing British actions before the Second World War, there are two topics that are

exceptionally difficult to discuss or to analyze in any way due to how they interact with later events.

The policy of appeasement is, of of course one of these, and the questions

of if the correct decisions were made and what effect those decisions had on the future

course of events, seems to get a new book about it about every other year. The other is around

rearmament. To add to the confusing soup in need of analysis, the two topics then intertwined together.

Was the appeasement path pursued to allow time for rearmament?

Did belief in appeasement prevent rearmament from happening sooner?

Over the next three episodes, we will discuss the British rearmament efforts in the last

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