Donald Trump is the very opposite of Neville Chamberlain, an honest politician
Trump a worse appeaser than Neville Chamberlain, leading Democrat says
February 2024
Other lives
Christine Penney obituary
‘People said it did in his career’: 33 pictures that defined British politicians
January 2022
Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
Munich: The Edge of War review – an elegant what-if twist on wartime history
Jeremy Irons is on top form as Neville Chamberlain in a Robert Harris adaptation that melds fact with enjoyable fiction
September 2019
Observer special: Britain and the second world war
Into the storm: the horror of the second world war
Eighty years ago the worst conflict in history began. It killed about 3% of the human race: up to 85 million people. Some 55 million of those were civilians
April 2019
Observer book of the week
Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie review – how Britain fell for a delusion
Book of the day
Appeasing Hitler by Tim Bouverie review – the road to war
September 2018
Five Brexit lessons for Theresa May from the fateful Munich agreement
David Boyle
Hand-drawn map of Dunkirk evacuation among war documents published for first time
From the Guardian archive
The Munich Agreement - archive, September 1938
Britain stood alone? Let’s consign that myth to history
August 2018
Air-raid shelters were means-tested at the beginning of the war
Letters: From the start of the Blitz on London in 1940, 11 of us from three houses sat in our neighbour’s shelter listening to the bombs raining down, writes Olive Townsley
December 2017
Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister – review
Best books of 2017
Anthony Sattin’s best history books of 2017
April 2017
A look back
From the Observer archive: this week in 1939
Roosevelt writes to Hitler and Mussolini
October 2016
Thatcher snatches win from Cameron in vote on century's worst PM
Historical writers deliver poll verdict that the notorious scourge of ‘society’ did more damage to Britain than the recently departed bringer of Brexit
July 2016
Notebook
Has Pablo Escobar come back as a hippo?
Peter Bradshaw
The Colombian drug lord’s legacy is paralleled by the environmental catastrophe unleashed by his escaped pets
June 2016
Comparing David Cameron to Neville Chamberlain is insulting – and wrong
Martin Kettle
On Question Time the prime minister was likened to the Tories’ most despised leader. But Merkel is not Hitler and the EU is an institution of peace, not war
August 2015
Edward Heath: abuse inquiry must unravel a solitary, private man
Liberal Tory, renowned variously for his pro-European stance, his intellect, the miners’ clash and scorn for Thatcher, was, off duty, a generous host - but still aloof to many
