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Burying Caesar is a gripping account of the mechanisms and motivations that underpin politics in Britain, forces that are as powerful today-on both sides of the Atlantic-as they were more than sixty years ago.What were the political machinations that kept Neville Chamberlain in office during the 1930s and deliberately kept Winston Churchill out Was Churchill the prophet of uncomfortable truths during his "wilderness years," or was Chamberlain right to pursue appeasement These are just some of the questions Stewart answers in his original and engaging book. He examines the dynamics and deep-seated rivalries within the Tory party, pitting Chamberlain's partisans against Churchill's. While Chamberlain appeased Hitler at Munich and urged isolation at home, it was Churchill who emerged from his wilderness with his distinctive voice of moral authority and bulldog conviction. And in the end, history proved Churchill right.
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Graham Stewart took his degree in Modern History at St. Andrews University and St. John's College, Cambridge.
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In this close examination of British parliamentary politics of the 1930s, Stewart strives for balance and understanding in this interpretation of those times, which is significant in that the most prominent leaders, among them Winston Churchill and Neville Chamberlain, have too easily been measured against the policy of appeasing Hitler. Although appeasement ultimately became the decisive issue in the political fates of the two men, their fortunes in the 1930s were buffeted by political matters that intertwined with general elections, by-elections, Cabinet reshuffles, debates, and backroom maneuvering to succeed an amiable but soporific prime minister, Stanley Baldwin. Throughout, Stewart underscores Chamberlain's political and administrative strengths as the reasons behind his grip on power even after the war crisis in September 1938 and despite Churchill's discordant condemnation of the sellout of Czechoslovakia as ". . . only the beginning of the reckoning." Stewart's history, climaxing with Chamberlain's fall, illustrates the intricate interplay of political detail with large events. Perhaps not the casual reader's cup of tea, but it's certainly an important contribution to its subject. Gilbert Taylor
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