Product Description: This study looks at interwar British society as Sayers portrayed it in the 11 novels and 21 short stories concerning her famous creation, detective Lord Peter Wimsey. These works accurately represent the period and society the author was living in, and as such are primary sources for the period...read more

Product Description: British appeasement was a controversial policy in the 1930s, and has remained so during the more than 50 years since the problems the policy were to solve exploded into World War II. A Climate For Appeasement delves into one of the primary reasons the appeasers used to justify their policy, one often accepted to some degree by historians since that time: the existence of an anti-war climate of opinion held by many members of the British public...read more