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After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfather Walter Runciman's 1938 Mission to Prague. This government-sponsored British delegation sought to broker peace between the Czechoslovak republic and its Sudeten German minoritya dispute that Hitler was aggravating with virulent anti-Czech propaganda and threats of invasion.

Drawing fresh evidence from personal diaries, private papers and Czech publications,44 Days in Pragueexposes the misunderstandings and official ignorance that provoked a calamitous series of betrayals. It reveals that, while Walter Runciman always supported Czechoslovakia's integrity, his wife Hildawhose role became crucialpublicly favoured the German cause.

This is a moving portrayal of Walter's declining influence as tensions mounted, from the couple's efforts to court a divided old aristocracy at glittering social occasions, to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's fatal unde

44 Days in Prague

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      Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
      Published 4 April 2024
      ISBN-13 9781911723042
      978-1911723042
      ISBN-10 1911723049
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      Book Synopsis

      After discovering that her grandmother had pro-German sympathies, Ann Shukman resolved to investigate her grandfather Walter Runciman's 1938 Mission to Prague. This government-sponsored British delegation sought to broker peace between the Czechoslovak republic and its Sudeten German minoritya dispute that Hitler was aggravating with virulent anti-Czech propaganda and threats of invasion.

      Drawing fresh evidence from personal diaries, private papers and Czech publications,44 Days in Pragueexposes the misunderstandings and official ignorance that provoked a calamitous series of betrayals. It reveals that, while Walter Runciman always supported Czechoslovakia's integrity, his wife Hildawhose role became crucialpublicly favoured the German cause.

      This is a moving portrayal of Walter's declining influence as tensions mounted, from the couple's efforts to court a divided old aristocracy at glittering social occasions, to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's fatal unde

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