Recommended reading:
The Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion
by Clement Leibovitz and Alvin Finkel
MERLIN PRESS
JAMES LORIMER & Company
(c) 1997
CONTENTS
Introduction by Christopher Hitchens
Preface
Chapter 1 The Myth of Appeasement
Chapter 2 An Obsession with Communism
Chapter 3 Heil to the Dictators
Chapter 4 Letting Hitler Rearm: Evolution of the Free Hand (From 1933 to the Nazi Occupation of the Rhineland)
Chapter 5 Preparing for a Formal Deal: From the Rhineland to the Abandonment of Czechoslovakia
Chapter 6 Formal Collusion: The Chamberlain-Hitler Meetings
Chapter 7 From Munich to the Fall of Prague: Trying to Maintain 'The Deal'
Chapter 8 Trying to Save the Deal: From the Guarantee of Poland to 1940
Chapter 9 A Confusion of Enemies
Appendix The Historians and the Chamberlain-Hitler Collusion
Index
About the authors:
Dr. Alvin Finkel
Born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1949, Alvin Finkel is Professor of History at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada, an open-learning institute modelled on Britain's Open University. He joined the university in 1978.
Dr. Finkel earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Manitoba and his PhD at the University of Toronto and has taught at Brandon University, the University of Manitoba, Queen's University, and the University of Alberta. He is the author of Business and Social Reform in the Thirties (1979) and The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta (1989) and co-author of the two-volume History of the Canadian Peoples (1993, 2nd edition 1997). His articles on Canadian history, comparative social policy-making in industrial countries, and distance education have appeared in a variety of Canadian and international journals.
Active in the New Democratic Party and in left-wing movements, Dr. Finkel first met Dr. Leibovitz as a fellow member of Jews for Peace in the Middle East. In 1994, he was persuaded by Dr. Leibovitz to collaborate on converting Dr. Leibovitz's extensive research, first compiled as The Chamberlain-Hitler Deal (1993) to produce the current manuscript.
Alvin Finkel is married to Carol Taylor and has two sons, Antony and Kieran.
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Dr. Clement Leibovitz
Clement Leibovitz was born in Egypt in 1923 into a Jewish family and educated in French-language schools. Forced to leave school at age 12, he worked in a variety of trades, principally as a radio technician. In 1959, he moved to Israel, where, after twenty years of interruption, he resumed his studies. He earned a BSc, MSc, and DSc from the Haifa Technion Institute of Technology. His thesis was in general relativity and cosmology. He moved to Canada in 1969 with his wife, Elvira, and three sons and worked in Computing Services at the University of Alberta until his retirement.
In 1976 Dr. Leibovitz was diagnosed with prostate cancer and, despite treatment, the tumour became active again four years later and metastased to several other organs. He was told that he had only one year to live. He spent the next six months producing a philosophical and dramatic work, Memoirs of God. He also joined other progressive Jews in Edmonton to form the organization, Jews for Peace in the Middle East, after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, and pursued his peace activities.
Still feeling hale and hearty, Dr. Leibovitz spent eight years doing research on the events leading to World War 2. The results of his research first appeared in The Chamberlain-Hitler Deal, the prototype of the current manuscript. In 1995 his doctors declared him free of cancer. He is currently working to produce books on socialist philosophy.
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Actually, I purchased the book yesterday.... I guess I'll be finished reading it in a week or so.
Gus. |
