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excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

On today's episode, you'll hear an interview I did with the writer and historian Tim Bouverie.

Tim is the author of a new book, Apeasing Hitler, Chamberlain, Churchill and The Road to War.

We met in London to discuss why British attempts to reason with the Nazi dictator failed to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War.

In contemporary parlance, I think that appeasement is seen as the ultimate dirty word, really.

It's seen as doing a deal with the devil.

Do you think that that's a fair assessment?

You're completely right that appeasement is a word with very negative connotations nowadays,

but it's important to remember that at the time in the 30s, it didn't carry such heavy implications of shame and surrender, etc. The first time that it was used in Parliament, I think, was by

Anthony Eden, who was a junior foreign office minister, and later went on to have a fantastic

reputation as an anti-appeaser. I also don't think that the idea of appeasement per se is in any

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