While the West slept
President Kennedy wrote a thesis in his last year at university that was later published under the title Why England Slept. The book examined appeasement of Nazi Germany by the UK during the inter-war years. I’ve always thought that the reasons for England’s reluctance to take on Germany in the 1930s were understandable; principally, the reluctance to enter into another conflict with the same enemy, so soon after the slaughter of the first.
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Joan McCaul and Tom Grein are both previous winners of The Spectator Australia Thawley Essay Prize. The 2019 prize winner will be announced shortly.
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