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| Introduction | |
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| Anglo-German relations, 1918-33 | |
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| The legacies of the First World War | |
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| The Paris peace conference | |
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| The Treaty of Versailles | |
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| The reparations problem | |
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| The Locarno treaties | |
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| The impact of the Great Depression | |
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| German foreign policy, 1929-33 | |
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| Document case study | |
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| The impact of Adolf Hitler: foreign-policy aims and actions, 1933-37 | |
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| What were Hitler's aims in foreign policy? | |
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| The early years of Hitler's foreign policy, 1933-35 | |
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| The problem of German rearmament | |
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| The Italian invasion of Abyssinia and its consequences | |
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| The Rhineland crisis | |
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| The Spanish Civil War | |
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| Hitler moves from strength to strength | |
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| The search for an Anglo-German alliance | |
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| Document case study | |
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| Why appeasement? | |
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| The impact of the First World War | |
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| Economic difficulties | |
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| The crisis of French will | |
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| Hostility towards Soviet communism | |
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| The imperial dimension | |
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| National defence | |
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| The mass media | |
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| Public opinion | |
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| The supporters of appeasement | |
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| The logic of appeasement | |
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| Alternatives to appeasement | |
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| Critics of appeasement | |
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| Document case study | |
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| Chamberlain and appeasement (1): the period of hope, May 1937 - October 1938 | |
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| Neville Chamberlain: early life and character | |
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| Chamberlain's views on the European crisis | |
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| Chamberlain's new direction | |
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| The Hossbach memorandum | |
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| Hitler makes key changes | |
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| Chamberlain's conflict with the Foreign Office | |
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| The union between Germany and Austria | |
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| The Czech crisis | |
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| The aftermath of Munich | |
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| Document case study | |
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| Chamberlain and appeasement (2): the road to war, October 1938 - September 1939 | |
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| The backlash against the Munich agreement | |
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| Difficulties with further appeasement | |
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| The foreign-policy options facing Chamberlain after Prague | |
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| The guarantee to Poland | |
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| The search for an alliance with the Soviet Union | |
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| The Nazi-Soviet pact | |
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| The outbreak of war | |
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| Document case study | |
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| The historical debate | |
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| The Hitlocentric interpretation | |
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| The revisionist view | |
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| Neville Chamberlain - 'guilty man'? | |
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| Modern revisionism | |
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| A post-revisionist era? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Select bibliography | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Index | |