CRITICALLY ASSESS CHURCHILL’S ACCOUNT OF NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S POLICY OF APPEASEMENT IN THE The Second World War.

CRITICALLY ASSESS CHURCHILL’S ACCOUNT OF NEVILLE CHAMBERLAIN’S POLICY OF APPEASEMENT IN THE The Second World War.

Churchill’s account of Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement in the Second World War, is and will be principally treated as a historic work. As such when critically assessing Churchill’s account, motives, reliability, and accuracy must be taken into account. However what makes Churchill’s The Second World War unique in some ways, is its heavily self-justificatory bias, which immediately calls into question its value as an account of appeasement. As part of Moshe’s conclusion of Churchill’s strategy and history, Moshe points out that ‘...Churchill always lived in fear of what he called ‘the verdict of history’. (pg 329 Moshe)Furthermore Moshe notes that Lord Moran claimed that Churchill wrote The Second World War with the purpose of assuring his place in history, and in order to prove that his srategic positions had been justified amd his view...