Neville Chamberlain

Reputations

by David Dutton

Neville Chamberlain remains one of the most controversial figures of twentieth-century British politics. For many years he was admired, even revered, throughout Britain. After serving as Prime Minister, however, Chamberlain left office a reviled and disdained public figure. This book seeks to explain these extremes while offering the author's assessment of what Chamberlain's historical reputation ought to be.

Genres: History, Biography, British Literature

264 pages, Paperback

First published May 4, 2001

About the author

David Dutton is Professor of Twentieth-Century British Political History at Liverpool University.

Reviews

[Andrea Engle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dutton hopes to rehabilitate the reputation of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with this forthright volume … in outlining the various historians and biographers who have dealt with the subject, the consensus still remains that Chamberlain and the Munich Agreement with Hitler was a complete mistake, and that Appeasement was a failed, as well as discredited, policy … interesting …