Originally Posted by
Sue Vêtements
I've said it here many times, but it's entirely possible that Chamberlain knew exactly what he was doing and sacrificed his career and reputation to buy us (just enough) time to rearm. You can make up your own mind about that, but we certainly weren't ready to fight Hitler in September 1938 ... we were barely able to do it a year later
Just think what it must have taken if that was actually the case
I suggest that you read "Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War" by Adrian Phillips.
This provides a rather different perspective on Chamberlain, showing him as a vain, credulous, naive, weak, arrogant and self-serving PM who, with his over-promoted civil servant sidekick Horace Wilson, ignored his cabinet and bypassed the Foreign Office to pursue a disastrous policy for his own personal glory.