The unnecessary war

by Patricia Meehan

The book is a scathing, indepth look at the treacherous and dispicable actions of the British government during the years leading up to the Second World War. There was a massive and coordinated effort within Nazi Germany to overthrow Hitler that would have prevented WWII entirely. But the British government, under Neville Chamberlain, refused to shift away from its policy of Appeasement. Despite incontrivertable evidence provided by the German Foreign Office that Hitler intended to go to war, the Neville Chamberlain's government refused to assist those German Oppositionists in any way. Patricia Meehan provides an enormous amount of archival evidence and eye-witness accounts that should put to rest any idea of WWII being inevitable. She also illustrates how before, during, and especially after the war, the British government continued to distance itself from the German Oppositionists, even going so far as to withhold evidence during the Nuremberg Trials that would have exhonorated some