The Runciman Mission to Czechoslovakia 1938

Prelude to Munich

• Author(s): P. Vysny,
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Pages: 376
• ISBN_10: 134965163X
  ISBN_13: 9781349651634
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Russia / General , History / World , History / Modern / General , History / Europe / General , History / General ,

Description:... Lord Runciman's mediation in Central Europe provides a sharp insight into British policy on the eve of the Second World War. Without clear objectives - other than to avoid war - his mission did little more than pressure Czechoslovakia for concessions. Runciman was manipulated into that position by Sudeten German separatists and also by those in Britain who sought to secure a rapprochement with Germany. The Mission's pursuit of that objective led directly to Chamberlain's fateful flying visits to Hitler.