《绥靖时代》【内容简介】
第一次世界大战后,避免新的冲突发生也许可以说是整个欧洲最普遍的愿望,“不要重蹈覆辙!”这句口号在欧洲人耳边久久回响,而这种观点也将影响欧洲的未来,并成为英国人所实行的绥靖政策的核心。
蒂姆·布弗里将本书所讲述的时期定为从1933年希特勒上台至第二次世界大战前,他通过重新构建英国一次次“绥靖希特勒”的谈判,展现了在纳粹于欧洲开展领土扩张等活动时,英国政府的犹豫不决、外交失败和议会内讧,从一个崭新的视角探讨了英国绥靖政策的发展历程与影响,表明最终走向战争的结局并非是少数人的盲目选择,而是具有时代特点的多方面作用的结果。关于当时的英国,本书进行了深入的档案研究,包括部分从未使用过的资料,对英国大臣、贵族和业余外交官在该时期的各项活动都进行了详细的描绘,讲述了他们如何通过自己的作为与不作为,决定英国的选择并影响了欧洲的命运,又是如何一步步走向战争的。
【作者简介】
蒂姆·布弗里(TimBouverie),英国历史学家、作家、记者,毕业于牛津大学基督堂学院。曾任英国第四频道新闻台的政治记者、制片人,报道各类重大政治事件。
【译者简介】
吕芃,天津人,英国伦敦大学金史密斯学院传媒硕士,游走过伦敦两家网络电台;曾合译非虚构传记文学《付出与收获》《两个人的房间》。
The Age of Appeasement
After the First World War, avoiding a new conflict was perhaps the most common aspiration across Europe: "Not again!" This slogan resonated in the ears of Europeans, and this view would shape the future of Europe and become the core of the policy of appeasement pursued by the British.
Tim Buvery covers the period from Hitler's rise to power in 1933 to the pre-World War II period, and he shows the British government's hesitancy, diplomatic failure and parliamentary infighting during Nazi territorial expansion and other activities in Europe by reconstructing the British negotiations of "appeasement of Hitler". This paper discusses the development course and influence of British appeasement policy from a new perspective, and shows that the end of the war is not the blind choice of a few people, but the result of many effects with the characteristics of The Times. An in-depth archival study of Britain at the time, including some never-before-used sources, this book provides a detailed picture of the activities of British ministers, nobles, and amateur diplomats in the period, and how, through their actions and inactions, they determined Britain's choices and shaped the fate of Europe, and how they gradually moved toward war.
【 About the author 】
TimBouverie is an English historian, writer, and journalist who graduated from Christ Church College, Oxford. He worked as a political reporter and producer for Channel 4 News in the UK, covering various major political events.
What do you mean?
Lu Peng, a native of Tianjin, has a master's degree in Communication from Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has walked through two Internet radio stations in London. He has co-translated the non-fiction biographies Pain and Gain and A Room for Two.