TY  - BOOK
AU  - Owen,David Anthony Llewellyn
TI  - Cabinet's finest hour: the hidden agenda of May 1940 
SN  - 9781910376553
U1  - 941.084 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Haus Publishing Ltd
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Diplomatic history
KW  - Cabinet system
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1936-1945
N2  - "Former Foreign Secretary David Owen has written a new history of the pivotal British War Cabinet meetings of May 1940. The minutes of these meetings reveal just how close Britain came to seeking a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany. Cabinet’s Finest Hour is both the story of Churchill’s determination to fight on and a paean to the Cabinet system of government. The Cabinet system, all too often disparaged as messy and cumbersome, worked in Britain’s interests and ensured a democracy on the brink of defeat had the courage to assess the alternatives to fighting on. The post-war denial of both the existence and legitimacy of the war cabinet debates had far-reaching consequences for Britain’s foreign policy for the rest of the century, notably over the Suez Crisis but arguably as far as the Second Iraq War." --
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