Goodreads asked Tim Bouverie:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Tim Bouverie I was inspired by reading some of the great diarists of the 1930s - Harold Nicolson, Duff Cooper, Chips Channon. I thought there was was a gap in the market for a narrative history of appeasement, told from contemporary sources and that there would be some new materials in the archives - particularly relating to the amateur diplomats. On this last point I was delighted to be right.

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