Format:
1 Online Ressource (232 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9781805261377
Content:
Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- 1.Nomination: The man and the moment -- 2.Preparations: President Beneš, the Sudeten German Party, and the Mission team -- 3.Days One to Four: Arrival-the press, the politicians, and the intractable problem -- 4.Days Four to Six and the First Weekend: The sporting Kinskýs and lessons in Bohemian history -- 5.Days Seven to Ten: Social life in a heatwave-pacifists and an anti-appeaser -- 6.Days Eleven to Thirteen and the Second Weekend: Walking the woods with the Ulrich Kinskys -- 7.Days Fourteen to Sixteen: The Mission's first suc-cesses and 'the Chicken' comes to roost -- 8.Days Seventeen to Twenty and the Third Weekend: Hilda suc-cumbs to flattery, an idyll in the Schwarzenberg forests, and Ashton-Gwatkin engages with Henlein -- 9.Days Twenty-One to Twenty-Three: President Beneš breaks the deadlock, Ashton-Gwatkin flies to London, and Runciman is pro-posed as emissary to Hitler -- 10.Days Twenty-Four to Twenty-Seven and the Fourth Weekend: The SdP's militaristic response to Beneš's initiative, nervousness at Teplitz, and Hilda makes a significant new friend -- 11.Days Twenty-Four to Thirty and the Fourth Weekend Con-tinued: Ashton-Gwatkin negotiates with Frank and Henlein at Rothenhaus, the Runcimans with daughter Margie join them -- 12.Days Twenty-Seven to Thirty-One: All attention on Henlein but a rebuke arrives from London -- Henlein and Hitler -- Beneš delivers his report to the Mission, Walter misunderstands and Beneš is aggrieved -- 13.Days Thirty-Two to Thirty-Three and the Fifth Weekend: Panic in London -- Beneš's Fourth Plan -- Henlein ceases to cooperate -- and Walter appeals to the Cardinal Archbishop.
Additional Edition:
9781911723042
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781911723042
Language:
English
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