ALL SOULS AND APPEASEMENT: A Contribution to Contemporary History.
Pp. viii+124(last blank), frontispiece, plus 7 plates, appendix; post 8vo; navy cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards slightly flecked and rubbed; lacking the dust wrapper; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, small inked initials of earlier owner on upper free endpaper, outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Macmillan, London, 1961. First edition. *The historian, who spent fifty years of his working life in All Souls College, Oxford, addresses the 'widespread idea that the college, as such, had a large part in the fatal policy of appeasement that led to the war. . . . Of course it was much discussed in college, and some of the most eminent members of the college had a leading hand in it; but the overwhelming majority of us were opposed to it' [p. 1]. Item #180096
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