I literally read this fifty years ago. One thing I took away was Shirer's feeling that Hitler COULD (and should) have been stopped in Czechoslovakia. However, I've since then, I ran into a book about the "future" of postwar Europe (written by a U.S. State Department official DURING the war-and who assumed Allied victory!), and he mention the Teschen Conflict, a contested region on the Polish/Czechoslovakian border that actually led to a six-day shooting war between those two countries shortly after WWI. The dispute so poisoned relations between Poland and Czechoslovakia that cooperation between them was out of the question-which would have made supplying Czechoslovakia almost impossible if Chamberlain and Daladier had decided to draw a hard line at Munich.
If Shirer made mention of this, it did not impress my young mind-but PLEASE correct me if I simply skipped over it.
Don't remember that either. This review is a retread, to be honest. I wrote it 20 years ago for amazon (which cancelled me). Many of the review I'm publishing here are like that: re-edited with additions from what I've learned in the meantime.
I literally read this fifty years ago. One thing I took away was Shirer's feeling that Hitler COULD (and should) have been stopped in Czechoslovakia. However, I've since then, I ran into a book about the "future" of postwar Europe (written by a U.S. State Department official DURING the war-and who assumed Allied victory!), and he mention the Teschen Conflict, a contested region on the Polish/Czechoslovakian border that actually led to a six-day shooting war between those two countries shortly after WWI. The dispute so poisoned relations between Poland and Czechoslovakia that cooperation between them was out of the question-which would have made supplying Czechoslovakia almost impossible if Chamberlain and Daladier had decided to draw a hard line at Munich.
If Shirer made mention of this, it did not impress my young mind-but PLEASE correct me if I simply skipped over it.
https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/olj/iirp/25_2005-06_winter/25_2005-06_winter_e.pdf
Don't remember that either. This review is a retread, to be honest. I wrote it 20 years ago for amazon (which cancelled me). Many of the review I'm publishing here are like that: re-edited with additions from what I've learned in the meantime.
I loved this book! I read the whole thing when I went to college in Aix-en-Provence in 1977.