{"id":11139,"date":"2022-02-22T18:05:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=200847"},"modified":"2022-02-22T18:18:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T17:18:13","slug":"in-defence-of-neville-chamberlain","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/in-defence-of-neville-chamberlain\/","title":{"rendered":"In defence of Neville Chamberlain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 22 February 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><span style=\"&quot;font-style:\" inherit=\"\" font-weight:=\"\">Walter Reid tells Spencer Mizen that, far from going down in history as the bloodless author of appeasement, Neville Chamberlain should be remembered as a radical politician who saw through <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/second-world-war\/adolf-hitler-fuhrer-facts-guide-rise-nazi-dictator-biography-pictures\/&quot;\">Adolf Hitler<\/a>\u2019s lies.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul><li><strong>Read more | <a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/period\/second-world-war\/a-martyr-and-a-hero-how-munich-the-edge-of-war-tries-to-soften-neville-chamberlains-rotten-reputation\/&quot;\">A martyr and a hero? How <em>Munich \u2013 The Edge of War<\/em> tries to soften Neville Chamberlain\u2019s rotten reputation<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]--><audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-200847-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/Chamberlain_defence-b5e3019.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/Chamberlain_defence-b5e3019.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/02\/Chamberlain_defence-b5e3019.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Walter Reid is the author of <em><span style=\"&quot;font-style:\" inherit=\"\">Neville Chamberlain: The Passionate Radical\u00a0<\/span><\/em>(Birlinn, 2021)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/neville-chamberlain-the-passionate-radical\/9781780276748&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Neville-Chamberlain-Passionate-Walter-Reid-ebook\/dp\/B097SN2S1R?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.waterstones.com\/book\/neville-chamberlain\/walter-reid\/9781780276748&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Waterstones<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/how-to-download-the-history-extra-podcast\/&quot;\">How to download the <em>HistoryExtra<\/em> podcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.acast.com\/historyextra\/in-defence-of-neville-chamberlain\/media.mp3&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__iefix&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__visible&quot;\"><span class=\"&quot;standard-button__inner&quot;\">Download as MP3<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Spencer Mizen Published: Tuesday, 22 February 2022 at 12:00 am Walter Reid tells Spencer Mizen that, far from going down in history as the bloodless author of appeasement, Neville Chamberlain should be remembered as a radical politician who saw through Adolf Hitler\u2019s lies. 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