Stopping Hitler

“[A] unique account of British threat responses to potential German conflict . . . Strongly recommended” ( Firetrench ). In the immediate aftermath of the First World War, it was expected that international disputes could be settled by arbitration through the creation of the League of Nations. Consequently, the British government concluded that there would not be another war in the foreseeable future and therefore the country’s armed forces could be correspondingly scaled back. The rise of Nazis