Neville Chamberlain
The books behind the blog
Four novels and a history, each set among the real events of the Second World War.
Appeasement
- History World War Two
- November 3, 2026
- 7 mins
David Lowther explores appeasement in 1930s Britain, Neville Chamberlain, the Cliveden set and newsreel censorship, and the history behind The Blue Pencil.
Read the novel: The Blue Pencil
Cliveden and the Seeds of Appeasement
- History World War Two
- November 27, 2025
- 7 mins
How a grand Thames-side country house helped shape Britain’s policy of appeasement in the 1930s — and how those events echo through my fiction.
Read the novel: The Blue Pencil
Neville Chamberlain Did the Wrong Thing
- History World War Two
- May 5, 2026
- 9 mins
The case for and against Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, from the Rhineland to the Munich Agreement, and why David Lowther believes Britain and France should have stood up to Hitler in 1938.
Read the novel: The Blue Pencil