Making Friends With Hitler: Lord Londonderry, The Nazis, And The Road To War Ii

Through the story of how Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry, came to be mixed up with the Nazis and how it all went horribly wrong for him, Ian Kershaw shows that behind the familiar cartoon is a much more complicated and interesting reality, full of miscalculations on both sides which proved to be among the most fateful in history.

Ian Kershawas biography of Adolf Hitler is widely regarded as the definitive work on the subject, as well as one of the most brilliant biographies of our time. In "Making Friends with Hitler," the great scholar shines remarkable new light on decisions that led to war by tracing the extraordinary story of Lord Londonderryaone of Britainas wealthiest aristocrats, cousin of Winston Churchill, confidant of the king, and the only British cabinet member to outwardly support the Nazi party. Through Londonderryas tragic tale, Kershaw shows us that behind the accepted dogma of English appeasement and German bullying is a much more complicated and interesting realityafull of miscalculations on both sides that proved to be among the most fateful in history.