Neville Chamberlain

Donald Trump is the very opposite of Neville Chamberlain, an honest politician | Letter

Letter: Unlike the 1930s British PM, the former US president has no redeeming qualities, writes Nicholas Milton

11, Mar, 2024 @6:21 PM

Trump a worse appeaser than Neville Chamberlain, leading Democrat says

Jim Himes says comparisons between Trump’s attitude to Putin and 1930s PM’s stance on Hitler ‘give Trump way too much credit’

Martin Pengelly in Washington

07, Mar, 2024 @5:01 AM

Christine Penney obituary

Other lives: Long-serving archivist who oversaw expansion of the University of Birmingham’s special collections

Richard Biddiscombe

13, Feb, 2024 @6:14 PM

‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians

From the Bullingdon boys to a bacon sandwich; Margaret Thatcher in a tank to Theresa May dancing … these landmark images shaped how we saw our leaders

Jonathan Freedland

03, Feb, 2024 @7:00 AM

Munich: The Edge of War review – an elegant what-if twist on wartime history

Jeremy Irons is on top form as Neville Chamberlain in a Robert Harris adaptation that melds fact with enjoyable fiction

Peter Bradshaw

06, Jan, 2022 @7:00 AM

Into the storm: the horror of the second world war

Eighty years ago the worst conflict in history began. It killed about 3% of the human race: up to 85 million people. Some 55 million of those were civilians

Neal Ascherson

01, Sep, 2019 @7:00 AM

Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie review – how Britain fell for a delusion

A gripping account of the nation’s greatest mistake is timely and relevant

Andrew Rawnsley

14, Apr, 2019 @5:59 AM

Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie review – the road to war

A well researched, pacy study of appeasement underlines the mistakes of a narrow, inflexible prime minister, and how few Britons understood the Third Reich

Susan Pedersen

05, Apr, 2019 @6:30 AM

Five Brexit lessons for Theresa May from the fateful Munich agreement | David Boyle

The prime minister could learn a thing or two from Neville Chamberlain’s disastrous summit 80 years ago, says author David Boyle

David Boyle

28, Sep, 2018 @10:21 AM

Hand-drawn map of Dunkirk evacuation among war documents published for first time

New book showcases second world war papers, including a sketch of Dunkirk evacuation plans and Churchill’s annotated End of the Beginning speech

Alison Flood

25, Sep, 2018 @3:26 PM

The Munich Agreement - archive, September 1938

On 30 September 1938, Neville Chamberlain declared ‘Peace for our time’ after Germany, Britain, France and Italy reached a settlement allowing Nazi Germany to annex parts of Czechoslovakia

compiled by Richard Nelsson

21, Sep, 2018 @10:05 AM

Britain stood alone? Let’s consign that myth to history | Letters

Letters: Readers respond to Michael Knowles’s letter on Brexit, where he claimed the rest of Europe should remember its debt to Britain from the second world war

Letters

09, Sep, 2018 @5:36 PM