Something my father (who got married in 1938) told me about Munich. The reality was the British Military were not in very good shape to undertake a war, and the extra year plus between Munich and the war gave them much needed time to build and expand. I'm not saying that Chamberlain had that in mind at the time, but it's a point worth remembering.
That's a good point. Chamberlain takes the fall for what was, in the context of 1938, a done deal: Germany was going to take the Sudetenland no matter what anyone said, and Britain was in no shape to go to war even if the fight could have been sold to the British people.
Chamberlain's big mistake was uttering the bit about 'peace in our time'.
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Chamberlain's big mistake was uttering the bit about 'peace in our time'.