Synopses & Reviews
This lively book re-evaluates six salient aspects of Lloyd George's role in the "lost peace" of Versailles. In a reexamination of six controversial episodes 1919-1940, it reviews his protean role at the Paris Peace conference, 1919, his strategy on reparations, his abortive guarantee treaty to France, and the emergence at the Conference of Appeasement. It then reassesses his controversial visit to Hitler, and his bids to halt WWII after the fall of Poland and France.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-171) and index.
About the Author
Antony Lentin is Professor in the Department of History, The Open University.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Enigma Variations: Lloyd George at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 * Reparations and Reputations: Lloyd George and Lord Cunliffe * The Treaty that Never Was: Lloyd George and the French Connection, 1919 * The Worm in the Bud: 'Appeasement' at the Peace Conference * The Magic Mountain: Lloyd George and Hitler at the Berghof, 1936 * "A Conference Now": Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Churchill, 1939-1940
Introduction * Enigma Variations: Lloyd George at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 * Reparations and Reputations: Lloyd George and Lord Cunliffe * The Treaty that Never Was: Lloyd George and the French Connection, 1919 * The Worm in the Bud: 'Appeasement' at the Peace Conference * The Magic Mountain: Lloyd George and Hitler at the Berghof, 1936 * "A Conference Now": Lloyd George, Chamberlain and Churchill, 1939-1940