The author's single minded attack on the appeasers make me wonder if the older generations are really that stupid--but experiences tell me that cannot be. I cannot believe that Chamberlain and others would be so stupid as to ignore all these "facts" as piled by Manchester--and Machester never really dug into the mindset of the people with different opinions. The books just goes on and on repeating how terrible these appeasers are without letting us how these people reached their conclusions, and what the public was like back then in general.