Antony eden's an interesting figure. He was the son of a half mad baronet and a very beautiful woman. The problem with eden was that he that he was highly emotional. And i'd certainly always have preferred churchill drank to eaden sop going to war over poland. Wasn't that a waste of time? We should have let hitler occupy poland.
As the new film, Munich – The Edge of War, hits Netflix screens starring Jeremy Irons as British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain negotiating on the brink of World War Two in 1938, we revisit an archive debate discussing that pivotal moment in history. Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum is joined by a collection of celebrated historians to debate whether Chamberlain did the right thing in an impossible situation or appeased a dictator, leading to the disastrous years of conflict that followed.
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