Tim Bouverie: Appeasing Hitler
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
You can order Tim's book here!
Something very special for you indeed history friends! A mere days away from launch, the lovely Tim Bouverie joins us for a fascinating chat about his monumental book, Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War, available in all good book stores! To say this book is monumental is to do it an injustice - in fact, I would go as far as saying, if you read any book on the build up to the Second World War in your life, you must read this. Just like I have attempted to reimagine the outbreak of the Great War from Britain's perspective, so too does Tim here work hard to bring us a refreshed look at that infamous foreign policy device. But, it'd be wrong to pigeonhole his book, or this episode, as an examination of appeasement in the late 1930s.
We certainly do that, but we delve deep into other matters as well - believe it or not, even the Treaty of Versailles and the Suez Crisis come up in our discussion, and how could they not? If you had the impression that appeasement was an isolated thing in British foreign policy, then you'd be wrong! Appeasement lived and died in the context of the 20th century, and lessons which were learned and which could never be forgotten shaped this century beyond measure. Appeasement was one of these lessons, and it's high time we did it justice. If you're ready to join Tim and for I for this incredible ride, then please do stop by! Remember you can track down Tim's great book here, or by going to any bookshop worth its salt. Thanksss!
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| 0:00.0 | This morning I had another talk with the German Chancellor Herr Hitler. |
| 0:06.0 | And here is the paper which bears his name upon it as well as mine. |
| 0:12.0 | Some of you perhaps have already heard what it contains, but I would just like to read it to you. |
| 0:19.0 | We, the German furor and chancellor, and the British Prime Minister |
| 0:24.2 | have had a further meeting today and are agreed in recognizing that the question of |
| 0:31.8 | Anglo-German relations is of the first importance for the two countries and for Europe. |
| 0:38.2 | We regard the agreement signed last night |
| 0:40.7 | and the Anglo-German naval agreement |
| 0:43.5 | as symbolic of the desire of our two peoples |
| 0:47.5 | never to go to war with one another again. |
| 0:50.3 | Again! |
| 0:50.9 | Yes! again. Again. Hello, history. Hello history friends, patrons all, and welcome to something a little bit special. |
| 1:19.1 | Zach Twanmely here, your host of When Diplomacy Fails. Don't worry, don't panic. |
| 1:23.6 | We've just taken a tiny break from the Versailles Anniversary Project until the 23rd of April, |
| 1:28.8 | and the Italians continue to scheme in the background. |
| 1:31.6 | Don't worry about them for the moment. |
| 1:33.3 | We're looking at something a bit different here. |
| 1:35.5 | We're joined today for a collaboration by someone who's getting a lot of attention right about now, |
| 1:42.3 | Mr. Tim Boovery. |
| 1:46.7 | But before we jump into that, I must set the scene by asking you a question. What comes to mind when you think of appeasement? Is it that |
| 1:53.7 | famous speech Chamberlain gave to an eager audience in September 1938 after returning from Munich, |
| 2:00.7 | which, yeah, opened the episode there, |
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