{"product_id":"2026100007851-secondhand-from-prague-after-munich-diplomatic-papers-1938-1940","title":"From Prague After Munich: Diplomatic Papers 1938-1940","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 2nd pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: wear and tear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the shadow of one of history's most fateful diplomatic betrayals, a young American Foreign Service officer stationed in Prague bore witness to the catastrophic aftermath of the Munich Agreement — and his dispatches paint an unflinching portrait of a continent sliding irreversibly toward war. From Prague After Munich: Diplomatic Papers 1938–1940 presents the firsthand diplomatic correspondence of George F. Kennan, written during his posting in Czechoslovakia as Nazi Germany tightened its stranglehold on Central Europe. With the precision of a trained diplomat and the moral clarity of a man who understood the stakes, Kennan chronicles the disintegration of Czech sovereignty, the human cost of appeasement, and the paralysis of Western powers in the face of Hitler's aggression.\n\nThese documents are far more than historical artefacts — they are a window into the mind of one of America's greatest strategic thinkers at the very moment his worldview was being forged. Kennan's prose is characteristically lucid and restrained, yet charged with a palpable urgency that no retrospective account could replicate. His analysis of Soviet and German ambitions, rendered in real time, would go on to underpin the doctrine of containment that defined Cold War foreign policy for decades. For students of diplomacy, 20th-century European history, or the origins of the Cold War, this collection poses a question that still resonates: what happens when democracies choose comfort over courage?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130630414555,"sku":"2026100007851-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4814fa29-b890-445a-b86d-27d08ed67b92.png?v=1786588016","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007851-secondhand-from-prague-after-munich-diplomatic-papers-1938-1940","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}