Cabinet's Finest Hour : The Hidden Agenda of May 1940 Paperback / softback
by David Owen
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Using the Cabinet papers from the National Archives, former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940.
Eight months into the war defeat seemed to many a certainty.
With the United States and Russia over a year away from entering the conflict, Britain found herself in a perilous and lonely position.
The Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was pushing Churchill, his Prime Minister, to explore the possibility of a negotiated peace with Hitler, using Mussolini as a conduit.
Ignored in Churchill's later account of the con--flict, the question before the War Cabinet was straightforward: should Britain fight on in the face of overwhelming odds, sacrificing hundreds of thousands of lives, or seek a negotiated peace?
The minutes of these meetings reveal just how close Halifax came to convincing the Cabinet that negotiations should be sought.
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- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Haus Publishing
- Publication Date:04/12/2017
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- ISBN:9781910376898
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:360 pages
- Publisher:Haus Publishing
- Publication Date:04/12/2017
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- ISBN:9781910376898