Why England Slept "The New York Times," to assist in redrafting the thesis, which had originally been titled "Appeasement At Munich". The writer Garry Wills claims that this assistance amounted to rewriting and retitling the manuscript, as well as finding an agent for its publication. As ambassador to Britain, Kennedy, Sr. supported Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement during the late 1930s. John F. Kennedy lived with his father in Britain at that time and as such witnessed the Luftwaffe's bombings of Britain first-hand. After publication in 1940, the book sold 80,000 copies in the United Kingdom and the United States, collecting
The Rise of Iskander 'Peace with Honour'." The Rise of Iskander The Rise of Iskander is the seventh novel written by Benjamin Disraeli who would later become Prime Minister of Great Britain. "The Rise of Iskander" was written in Bath, England in the winter of 1832-3. It is based on the life of George Castriota, better known as Scanderbeg a prince and national hero of Albania which Disraeli had visited two years earlier on his Grand Tour. It was published in London in 1833 together with The Wondrous Tale of Alroy Iskander was a young prince when his father’s kingdom (Epirus) was taken over