J. Kenneth Brody served as a World War II naval officer in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Pacific theaters. He practiced law in Seattle and was executive vice president of a Fortune 500 company, then retired to write the history of his era. He is the author of The Avoidable War and The Trial of Pierre Laval.
-I am impressed by the thoroughness of the research and skillful
way in which Brody has woven together the different threads of the
complicated and tragic story of the failure of Western policy in
the years 1922-1936.- --Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University
-Brody's gripping treatment . . . makes all the actors it discusses
intelligible in their own terms and argues a good case for
believing that Lord Cecil and the League of Nations Union had the
opposite effect from the effect they intended the Peace Ballot to
have.- --Maurice Cowling, University of Cambridge -The Hoare-Laval
Pact of 1935 was an attempt by the British and French governments
to resolve the Abyssinian Crisis by buying off Mussolini in hopes
of keeping him in the anti-Hitler coalition. The pact was
repudiated by British public opinion and traditionally is seen as
the beginning of -appeasement.- In volume 2 of The Avoidable War
(v.1, CH, Oct'99) Brody argues that this agreement was the last
real opportunity to deter Hitler, and that French efforts to
appease Mussolini were more realistic than the high-minded
fantasies that emerged from London. This traditional history
marries documents and memoirs with important insights on the
workings of public opinion, especially in Britain... A strength of
the work is that it redresses certain traditional Anglo-American
biases about Laval and the origins of appeasement. Important for
all European collections; undergraduates and above.- --G. P. Cox,
Choice
"I am impressed by the thoroughness of the research and skillful
way in which Brody has woven together the different threads of the
complicated and tragic story of the failure of Western policy in
the years 1922-1936." --Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University
"Brody's gripping treatment . . . makes all the actors it discusses
intelligible in their own terms and argues a good case for
believing that Lord Cecil and the League of Nations Union had the
opposite effect from the effect they intended the Peace Ballot to
have." --Maurice Cowling, University of Cambridge "The Hoare-Laval
Pact of 1935 was an attempt by the British and French governments
to resolve the Abyssinian Crisis by buying off Mussolini in hopes
of keeping him in the anti-Hitler coalition. The pact was
repudiated by British public opinion and traditionally is seen as
the beginning of "appeasement." In volume 2 of The Avoidable War
(v.1, CH, Oct'99) Brody argues that this agreement was the last
real opportunity to deter Hitler, and that French efforts to
appease Mussolini were more realistic than the high-minded
fantasies that emerged from London. This traditional history
marries documents and memoirs with important insights on the
workings of public opinion, especially in Britain... A strength of
the work is that it redresses certain traditional Anglo-American
biases about Laval and the origins of appeasement. Important for
all European collections; undergraduates and above." --G. P. Cox,
Choice
"I am impressed by the thoroughness of the research and skillful
way in which Brody has woven together the different threads of the
complicated and tragic story of the failure of Western policy in
the years 1922-1936." --Gordon A. Craig, Stanford University
"Brody's gripping treatment . . . makes all the actors it discusses
intelligible in their own terms and argues a good case for
believing that Lord Cecil and the League of Nations Union had the
opposite effect from the effect they intended the Peace Ballot to
have." --Maurice Cowling, University of Cambridge "The Hoare-Laval
Pact of 1935 was an attempt by the British and French governments
to resolve the Abyssinian Crisis by buying off Mussolini in hopes
of keeping him in the anti-Hitler coalition. The pact was
repudiated by British public opinion and traditionally is seen as
the beginning of "appeasement." In volume 2 of The Avoidable War
(v.1, CH, Oct'99) Brody argues that this agreement was the last
real opportunity to deter Hitler, and that French efforts to
appease Mussolini were more realistic than the high-minded
fantasies that emerged from London. This traditional history
marries documents and memoirs with important insights on the
workings of public opinion, especially in Britain... A strength of
the work is that it redresses certain traditional Anglo-American
biases about Laval and the origins of appeasement. Important for
all European collections; undergraduates and above." --G. P. Cox,
Choice
"The Hoare-Laval Pact of 1935 was an attempt by the British and
French governments to resolve the Abyssinian Crisis by buying off
Mussolini in hopes of keeping him in the anti-Hitler coalition. The
pact was repudiated by British public opinion and traditionally is
seen as the beginning of "appeasement." In volume 2 of The
Avoidable War (v.1, CH, Oct'99) Brody argues that this agreement
was the last real opportunity to deter Hitler, and that French
efforts to appease Mussolini were more realistic than the
high-minded fantasies that emerged from London. This traditional
history marries documents and memoirs with important insights on
the workings of public opinion, especially in Britain... A strength
of the work is that it redresses certain traditional Anglo-American
biases about Laval and the origins of appeasement. Important for
all European collections; undergraduates and above." --G. P. Cox,
Choice
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
