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The End is Nigh: British politics, power and the road to the Second World War by Robert Crowcroft |
Crowcroft's main contentions are that foreign policy during the 1930's subsumed Britain's domestic agenda and that events in a world about to explode, especially the rhetorical use that could be made of them, became the key resource to be exploited in the competition for Parliamentary ascendancy. Churchill, obsessed by India, comes out particularly badly by this interpretation. By questioning accepted mythologies, Crowcroft paints a far murkier, cynical picture more akin to today's distasteful politics.
(Jeremy Miller - bwl 98 Autumn 2020 ) |
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