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The book tells how the democratic West in 1938 tried to avoid a major war, but encouraged the aggressor to act. The Munich Agreement was the culmination of the policy of appeasement, brutally destroying the sovereignty of the young Czechoslovak Republic in favor of an illusory peace. Its president, Edvard Beneš, concluded sadly at the time: “This is a betrayal that will punish itself.” Western democracies, having chosen shame over war, received both war and shame.
Piotr M. Majewski masterfully analyzes the international crisis into which the world plunged on the eve of World War II. Almost daily reconstruction of events, extraordinary attention to detail, behind-the-scenes conversations of politicians in Prague, Berlin, Rome, London and elsewhere, confrontation of intelligence agencies, analysis of the psychotypes of the main characters, their strength and powerlessness create a dynamic plot in which the tension grows with each page. There are no long chapters, the story is more like a diary, in which each entry is built around important places, people and events. The reader becomes an eyewitness and together with the protagonists experiences the entire turbulent year of 1938, finding himself in the whirlpool of a political thriller, unfortunately, with a well-known ending.
The ghost of Munich still influences world politics. Who knows, maybe right now the idea of a “new Munich” is hovering in someone’s office. So this book is a good confirmation that a deal with the devil will never bring good.