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Guilty Men (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (Paperback)

by Cato (Author)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (27 Aug 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141180986
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141180984
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.8 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 720,235 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Writing as "Cato", Michael Foot, Frank Owen and Peter Howard produced the first account of "appeasement". Now republished with a new preface by Michael Foot and introduction by John Stevenson, "Guilty Men" conveys the panic and horror of Britain suddenly alone in Nazi Europe.

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11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Valuable Historical Document, 13 May 2002
"Cato" may have been propagandist but this does not diminish from the work's historical validity. Obviously intentions behind its publication were political, and both of Britain's major parties were responsible for the mess in 1940; yet only one had a sizeable majority in the run-up to war. It would also be wise to remember the polarisation of the "Devil's Decade", and a book like this should not be expected to deliver a definitive historical account but an insight into mind-sets during a highly discordant period. It is an excellent primary source and should be treated as such.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Legendary, Influential Classic which made and is part of our history, 13 Oct 2008
By G. Hassan "The Bungo boy" (Glasgow, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This is a classic - a book which is part of history and contributed to and made history. I am writing this review in response to the ridiculous, dismissive and inaccurate review which gave it one star.

For a start, this book is written by Michael Foot, Frank Owen, former Liberal MP and Peter Howard, Crossbencher at the Sunday Express and a previous captain of the English rugby team. This group of people are not a group of narrow, dogmatic leftist fellow-travellers in the pay of some foreign ideology as the terrible review insinuates. Instead all three were united by working for Lord Beaverbrook, an arch Tory, who because he prevented his journalists writing for other papers and outlets, had to invent the name 'Cato'.

This book was written at the point of France collapsing and the Dunkirk miracle and came out in the early days of the Churchill Government. It was written and reads as a polemic, tapping into the popular rage which was widespread about the failed Tory politicians who had appeased Hitler and Mussolini.

Guilty Men charged the foreign policies of all of the UK Governments of the 1930s with letting this country's defences down: Ramsay MacDonald's Tory dominated administration, Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain, and of not preparing this nation to stand up to fascist aggression. This is undoubtably true: Japanese aggression in China, the German and Italian intervention in the Spanish Civil War against the democratically elected centre-left government, Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia, topped by Chamberlain's craven and inept carving up of the democratic state of Czechoslovakia and handing on a plate to Hitler, should shame all of us to this day.

It is true that this book understandably simplifies. It wasnt just Tories who appeased Hitler and the dictators: George Lansbury and David Lloyd George spectacularly got Hitler wrong. Yet, all these years on: Guilty Men broadly got it right: British Governments of the 1930s were Tory and they let Hitler and Mussolini march all over the continent before they decided to make a stand.

This book is a part of British history, articulating the popular imagination about Tory appeasement, and playing a part in the creation of collective opinion which led to 1945 and the election of a Labour Government. Truly an important, fascinating, riveting, pulsating read.
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7 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars A truely vile and contemptable book, 30 Jul 1999
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One of the most mendacious works of fiction masquerading as fact ever written. Produced by Left-wing Labour Party operatives with an agenda of long-term political mythologising, it traduces the Polish Army, Sir Thomas Inskip whose air-defence policies saved England in the Battle of Britian, and the Conservative Party which tried to rearm with limited financial strength while Labour attacked every Arms Estimate till 1937 (when it abstained). Its version of events in Poland in 1939 somehow omits to mention Stalin's attack on it. A truely vile and contemptable book.
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