I just ran across a couple of new books at Amazon.com and Powell's Books that I want to read as kind of a supplement to the book we will be reading. Thought you might be interested:
MUNICH, 1938; APPEASEMENT AND WORLD WAR II by David Faber (2009). "David Faber offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how Hitler outwitted the smug and curiously naïve Chamberlain to win control of much of Czechoslovakia and start down the road to war. Dramatic, exciting, and at times almost unbearably poignant, Munich, 1938 puts a human face to a key turning point in history and makes it come alive." -- per Lynne Olson, author of Troublesome Young Men
1938; HITLER'S GAMBLE by Giles Macdonogh (2009) Per Booklist's review, "Nineteen thirty-eight was the year the Nazi regime went into radical high gear, when its leader destroyed two countries and unleashed the worst pogroms yet against Jews. In a journalistic rendering of the year, MacDonogh begins with the shake-up of German army leadership that replaced skeptics of Hitler’s course in foreign policy with reliable lackeys. Hitler wanted a war in 1938, not the peace brokered by Neville Chamberlain. For the moment, then, fanatical Nazis had to remain content with persecuting Jews, which escalated drastically toward the notorious genocidal threat Hitler publicly prophesied in early 1939. An accessible chronicle of crisis and atrocity that should especially interest readers who want to review the gathering storm of World War II."
Marj
