Volume 26, Number 4 · March 22, 1979
War in Our Time
By A.J.P. Taylor
Munich: The Price of Peace
by Telford Taylor
Doubleday, 1,104 pp., $17.50
The conference at Munich which led to the partition of Czechoslovakia was held over forty years ago on September 30, 1938. To judge from the books that still appear about it and the passionate feelings it evokes, the Munich conference was as significant as the congress of Vienna or the Paris peace conference of 1919. At first sight this is strange. As Telford Taylor rightly remarks, the conference settled nothing: its decisions had already been made in advance. 'Munich' was above all a symbol. A symbol of appeasement for some, a symbol of betrayal and weakness for others.
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