Contents

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1. Introduction

I. MAKING PEACE AND MANAGING PEACE, 1919–30

2. Who Made British Policy and Grand Strategy

3. Creating the New World Order, 1919–21

4. Reconstructing the New World Order, 1921–6

5. Managing the New World Order, 1926–30

II. THE CRUMBLING OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER, 1931–6

6. The World Crisis and the National Government, 1931–3

7. A New Grand Strategy: The Defence Requirements Committee, 1932–5

8. ‘I wish I saw a real policy emerging, but frankly I don’t’: The Baldwin Government, 1935–7

III. THE ASCENDENCY OF CHAMBERLAIN, 1937–40

9. The Grand Strategy of Fortress Britain, May 1937–September 1938

10. ‘And I sincerely believe that we have at last opened the way to that general appeasement which alone can save the world from chaos’: Appeasement, Containment, and War, October 1938 to September 1939

11. ‘…there was no hurry as time was on our side’: Chamberlain’s War