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User Review - antiquary - LibraryThingJohn Kennedy's account of the period before World War II explaining the policy of appeasement --a bit odd since his father as US ambassador to Britain did not really support the war. Read full review
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User Review - usnmm2 - LibraryThingJFK wrote this while in collage and pubished in mid 1940, partly in response to Churchills' 1938 book "while England Slept". In his introduction he answers churchill this way ""... it appears ... Read full review
Contents
Certain Fundamental Beliefs | 3 |
Influence of the General Dis | 41 |
Beginnings of the Shift from | 59 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Why England slept |
| Author | John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| Publisher | W. Funk, inc., 1961 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Disarmament Great Britain History / Europe / Great Britain Political Science / International Relations / Arms Control |
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