Невилл Чемберлен: Джентльмен с зонтиком

Familii͡a Chemberlen izvestna u nas pochti vsem blagodari͡a populi͡arnomu v 1920-e gody flesh-mobu "Nash otvet Chemberlenu!", stavshemu pogovorkoĭ (komu i za chto trebovalsi͡a otvet, chitatelʹ uznaët po khodu povestvovanii͡a). V knige rechʹ idët o mladshem iz znamenitoĭ dinastii Chemberlenov - Neville (1869-1940), kotoromu udalosʹ vzoĭti na vershinu vlasti Britanskoĭ imperii - statʹ premʹer-ministrom. Imenno ėtot Chemberlen, poluchivshiĭ prozvishche "Dzhentlʹmen s zontikom", trizhdy letal k Gitleru v senti͡abre 1938 goda i, po suti, ubedil ego podpisatʹ Mi͡unkhenskoe soglashenie, polagai͡a pri ėtom, chto garantiruet "mir dli͡a nashego pokolenii͡a". I imenno ėtot Chemberlen spusti͡a 11 mesi͡at͡sev prevratit germano-polʹskiĭ konflikt vo Vtorui͡u mirovui͡u voĭnu. Istorik Morgana Devlin, mnogo let zanimai͡ushchai͡asi͡a issledovaniem politiki Britanskoĭ imperii, predstavli͡aet print͡sipialʹno novui͡u dli͡a rossiĭskogo chitateli͡a knigu - pervoe zhizneopisanie N. Chemberlena na russkom i͡azyke, osnovannoe na ego dnevnikakh, lichnykh pisʹmakh, zapisi͡akh i memuarakh ego okruzhenii͡a. Chemberlen, chʹë imi͡a i v SSSR, i v sovremennoĭ Rossii - sinonim "predatelʹstva", predstaët v neozhidannom svete, ostavli͡ai͡a vopros: "Nuzhno li politiku bytʹ dzhentlʹmenom?" - i raskryvaet pechalʹnye posledstvii͡a otveta "Da".

The name Chamberlain is known to almost everyone due to popular in the 1920-ies flash mob "Our answer to Chamberlain!", which became a proverb (to whom and for what the answer was required, the reader learns in the course of the story). The book is about the youngest of the famous Chamberlain dynasty — Neville (1869-1940), who managed to climb to the top of the power of the British Empire — to become Prime Minister. It was this Chamberlain, nicknamed " The gentleman with the umbrella, "who flew to Hitler three times in September 1938 and, in fact, persuaded him to sign the Munich agreement, believing that he would guarantee"peace for our generation." And it is this Chamberlain 11 months later will turn the German-Polish conflict in the Second world war. Historian Morgana Devlin, who has been studying the politics of the British Empire for many years, presents a fundamentally new book for the Russian reader — the first biography of N. Chamberlain in Russian, based on his diaries, personal letters, notes and memoirs of his entourage. Chamberlain, whose name in both the USSR and modern Russia is synonymous with "betrayal," appears in an unexpected light, leaving the question: "Should a politician be a gentleman?"- and reveals the sad consequences of the answer "Yes".