תיאור הספר

SIGNED BY AUTHOR - Benny Morris (b.1948), an eminent Israeli historian, professor of history in the Middle East Studies department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in the city of Beersheba, Israel, and a key member of the group of Israeli historians known as the `New Historians` (a term Morris coined to describe himself and historians Avi Shlaim and Ilan Pappé). The dedicatee is Prof. Israel Gutman (1923-2013) - a Polish-born Israeli historian of the Holocaust. In this monograph the author studies the attitudes of the British weekly and Sunday papers towards Nazi Germany and Europe during the 1930s, casting fresh light on the subject. 235x155mm. 212 pages. Red cloth Hardcover with dust-jacket. Gilt spine. Jacket rubbed and slightly scratched/wrinkled. Jacket spine faded. Bump-mark on front cover. Jacket rear hinges upper part taped. Jacket and corner upper corners bumped. Spine edges slightly bumped. Small stain on text block upper edge. Signed dedication on front whitepage. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare monograph on the political and psychological mechanics of appeasement in the years preceding the Second World War is in good condition.