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Munich: The Price of Peace

Telford Taylor

#135 of 3,809 books · #42 in History

Won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (1979). Also shortlisted or longlisted for 2 other awards.

A comprehensive examination of the Munich Agreement of 1938 and its role in the onset of the Second World War, tracing the diplomatic and military maneuvering in Western Europe between the wars, from the Treaty of Versailles and the 1919 Paris peace conference through the Munich conference and Hitler's subsequent invasion of Prague. The book examines in detail the issues, intrigues, and personalities - Hitler and Chamberlain above all - that shaped the fateful 1938 conference.

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Doubleday Books
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Munich AgreementWorld War II originsInterwar diplomacy

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