The journalist Shiela Grant Duff's Penguin Special, "Europe and the Czechs" was published and distributed to every MP on the day that Chamberlain returned from Munich. Her book was a spirited defence of the Czech nation and a detailed criticism of British policy, confronting the need for war if necessary. It was influential and widely read. Although she argued against the policy of "peace at almost any price" she did not take the personal tone that "Guilty Men" was to take two years later.