![]() He believed if he'd fought in 1938, he would have won a quick victory and there would have been no united front."įor Harris, his novel was the culmination of a 30-year fascination with the Munich Agreement. He regarded the deal at Munich as his greatest mistake. "The biggest advocate for this view is Hitler. It gave us a moral advantage, it bought us a year to rearm, and there was probably no alternative. Hitler was never going to honour a deal but that didn't mean it was wrong to try. "If we were now confronted with standing up to China or Russia and the PM delivered us from a certain war, I think he'd be feted as well. ![]() I just think he should be given a bit more of a crack of the whip. ![]() ![]() ![]() "Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to pretend he was a genius. "Yes, Chamberlain's policies collapsed in ruins and his life with them but I still think he's become a handy scapegoat for everybody," he says. Today, Harris believes Chamberlain, who foresaw the collapse of British power in the second global conflict in barely two decades, deserves public rehabilitation of his reputation. ![]()
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