Chris Bryant
Bloomsbury, £25 (hbk)
ISBN 978-1526601711
To oppose the Munich Agreement of 1938 was once considered something close to treason. The prime minister of the day had met an intimidating opponent and had extracted from him a pact that would save the world from war. Who could possibly object to that?
Winston Churchill, for one, was not on board. But he had a reputation as a bluffer and attention-seeker and could be dismissed as being out of step with the country. Then there was the Labour opposition, but their intransigence would surely cost them the next election.
In many ways more irritating for Neville Chamberlain’s National Government was an obstructive group of its own backbenchers. These men, disparagingly referred to by Chamberlain and his allies as ‘the Glamour Boys’, are the subject of this fascinating new history by Chris Bryant, the Labour MP for Rhondda.
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