Arms and the Covenant

Arms and the Covenant
Author	Winston Churchill
Subject	Great Britain—Foreign relations—20th century; Europe—Politics and government—1918–1945; Germany—Politics and government—1933–1945; Disarmament; Security, International
Published	1938 (George G. Harrap)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Pages	465
OCLC	470130900
Dewey Decimal	942.084
LC Class	DA566.7 .C53

Arms and the Covenant is a 1938 non-fiction book written by Winston Churchill.^[2] It was later published in the United States as While England Slept; a Survey of World Affairs, 1932–1938.^[3] It highlighted the United Kingdom's lack of military preparation to face the threat of Nazi Germany's expansion and attacked the current policies of the British government, led by the Conservative Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. The book galvanised many of his supporters and built up public opposition to the Munich Agreement.^[4]

John F. Kennedy was inspired by the book's title when he published his thesis, which he wrote during his senior year at Harvard College and in which he examined the reasons for Britain's lack of preparation. Originally titled Appeasement in Munich, it was titled Why England Slept upon its 1940 publication.^[5]

References

^ Terry Reardon (6 October 2012). Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King: So Similar, So Different. Dundurn. pp. 394–. ISBN 978-1-4597-0590-6.
^ "When Churchill met traitor Guy Burgess". The Daily Telegraph. 29 September 2015.
^ "Arms and the Covenant" (PDF). Churchill at Chartwell. Chartwell Booksellers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
^ Barbara Leaming (17 August 2007). Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman. W. W. Norton. pp. 103–. ISBN 978-0-393-34428-8.
^ Richard M. Langworth (1 November 2017). Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What He Actually Did and Said. McFarland. pp. 225–. ISBN 978-1-4766-7460-5.

External links

Catalog record for Arms and the Covenant at the United States Library of Congress

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[Reardon2012-1] Terry Reardon (6 October 2012). Winston Churchill and Mackenzie King: So Similar, So Different. Dundurn. pp. 394–. ISBN 978-1-4597-0590-6.

[2] "When Churchill met traitor Guy Burgess". The Daily Telegraph. 29 September 2015.

[3] "Arms and the Covenant" (PDF). Churchill at Chartwell. Chartwell Booksellers. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2015.

[Leaming2007-4] Barbara Leaming (17 August 2007). Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman. W. W. Norton. pp. 103–. ISBN 978-0-393-34428-8.

[Langworth2017-5] Richard M. Langworth (1 November 2017). Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality: What He Actually Did and Said. McFarland. pp. 225–. ISBN 978-1-4766-7460-5.

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v t e Munich Agreement
Prelude (Oct 1925 – Sep 1938)	Locarno Treaties Sudeten German Party Parliamentary election, 1935 Border fortifications Fall Grün Hossbach Memorandum Heim ins Reich Anschluss May Crisis Runciman Mission Bled Agreement Runciman Report Godesberg Memorandum Oster Conspiracy Sudeten German uprising
Consequences (Nov 1938 – Sep 1939)	First Vienna Award Second Czechoslovak Republic German invasion of Czechoslovakia Czechoslovak government-in-exile Slovak Republic Bohemia and Moravia Hungarian invasion of Carpatho-Ukraine Slovak–Hungarian War Slovak invasion of Poland Generalplan Ost
Nullification (Mar 1945 – Dec 1973)	Third Czechoslovak Republic German evacuation from Central and Eastern Europe German expulsion from Czechoslovakia Potsdam Agreement Beneš decrees Paris Peace Treaties (1947) Treaty of Prague (1973)
Related topics	Events preceding the war in Europe European foreign policy of the Chamberlain ministry: Appeasement "Peace for our time" Lesson of Munich History of Czechoslovakia (1918–1938): Germans in Czechoslovakia Western betrayal: Arms and the Covenant (1938) Why England Slept (1940)