Indeed, also consider the one-volume work by the same author: Neville Chamberlain: A Biography by Robert C. Self (London: Ashgate, 2006) is the new definitive treatment of a fascinating man and period. Drawing from his own four-volume anthology of the man's letters, as well as many other resources-and the perspective of 60 years since Feiling's authorized study, this biography shows, there is more to Chamberlain than has been generally supposed, and even the infamous events of 1938 are open to more charitable interpretations than is usually the case. Based on the study of over 150 collections of private papers on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as exhaustive exploration of British government records held in the National Archives (the former Public Recod Office at Kew), it is no exaggeration to say that the author has surveyed virtually all the existing archival material written by or to Chamberlain, as well as a high proportion of that referring to him. Self teaches at London Metropolitan University.
Chris Sterling From: Antoine Capet Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 12:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ChurchillChat] Good one volume work on Chamberlain? I find Neville Chamberlain, Robert Self, ed., The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters Volume 4: The Downing Street Years, 1934-1940 (London: Ashgate, £85.00 [USA $159.95] or £250.00 [$475.00] for the four-volume set, xii-588 pages, ISBN 0754652661) absolutely riveting. See review : http://www.cercles.com/review/r26/chamberlain6.htm Antoine Capet From: Bill Loytty Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 5:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ChurchillChat] Good one volume work on Chamberlain? I'm currently reading Andrew Roberts interesting bio of Lord Halifax, The Holy Fox (link goes to amazon) . It's gotten me interested in reading more about the other leading appeasers. Does anyone know of a good, accessible, one volume work on Chamberlain or Wilson or others of their ilk? (hopefully one that wont bore me to tears). While I think that the appeasers deserve most of the opprobrium they've gotten in the last 70 years, I'd like to read more on their successes and failures before the 30s, to try and understand why they were so blind (like much of their contemporaries) to the danger Hitler posed. Regards, Bill --- Bill Loytty [email protected] http://blog.loytty.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
