On Borrowed Time
How World War II Began

By Leonard Mosley

Front Cover:

This book was published in 1969 by Random House, New York. The book measures 6 ½ inches by 9 ½ inches and contains xvi, 509 pages. The dust jacket shows signs of wear with chips and rips along the edges, however, the dust jacket is in fair condition. The black cloth cover of the book itself has embossed figures of the personages and the title in silver along the spine. The cover itself shows minor signs of wear along the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The book has maps on the end pages. The pages show no signs of rips. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of the book itself is very good.


Left top: The Berghof, Hitlers retreat at Berchtesgaden, in the Bavarian Alps. He is shown here on the terrace with Eva Braun, from whose photo collection this was taken.
Left Bottom: In August 1938, Chamberlain had sent Lord Runciman to Prague to mediate in the disputes stirred up by the Nazi leader in the Sudetenland, Konrad Henlein. Left: Viscountess Runciman.

Right Top Left: After Chamberlains second meeting with Hitler, at Bad Godesberg, the French leaders came to London for talks. From left to right: French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, Permier Edouard Daladier and General Gamelin, the Military commander in chief.
Right Top Right: Sir Horace Wilson arrives in Berlin on September 25 with a personal message from Chamberlain to Hitler. With him is Sir Nevile Henderson, British ambassador in Berlin.
Right Bottom: Sir Robert Vansittart, former Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs.

Contents:

    Acknowledgements

    Part One: Aide-memoire

  1. Incident at Eger
  2. Prophets at Armageddon
  3. The Antipathetic Alliance

    4. Part Two: The Road to Prague

  4. How Long Will this Burlesque Last?
  5. Don’t You See? … it’s the German Insurance Companies That Will Have to Pay!
  6. Hitler over Bohemia

    7. Part Three: Warsaw or Moscow?

  7. The Fuhrer is Sick
  8. The Panic Pact
  9. Hitler Briefs His Generals
  10. The Conspirators Are Worried
  11. You Must Think We Are Nitwits and Nincompoops!
  12. Slow Boat to Leningrad

    13. Part Four: Moment of Truth

  13. The Walrus
  14. Stalin Makes Up His Mind
  15. Hitler Takes a Hand
  16. Ribbentrops Hour of Triumph

    17. Part Five: The Sand Runs Out

  17. Mussolini Reneges
  18. The Indefatigable Swede
  19. Operation Canned Goods

    20. Part Six: World War II

  20. Common Action-or Another Conference?
  21. At Last

    22. Epilogue
    Sources
    Notes
    Index
    Maps endpapers; Czechoslovikia; Danzig and the Polish Corridor


Left Top: Henlein with an appreciative Fuhrer
Left Bottom: On September 28 in the jam packed Sportpalast, Hitler made on of his most vituperative speeches, against the Czechs in general and President Eduard Benes in particular.

Right Top Right: Czech President Eduard Benes
Right Top Left: Jan Masaryk, Czech minister in London
Right Bottom: Chamberlain being escorted by Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German Foreign Minister (right), on his arrival in Munich on September 29.


Left: General Wilhelm Keitel (shown here with his field marshals baton after his promotion in 1940)
Generial Heinz Guderian, one of the great panzer leaders of World War II, whose tanks annihilated the Polish Cavalry

Right Top: Field Marshall Hermann Goring chatting with French Air Minister Joseph Vuillemin (in dark uniform) on occasion of the latters visit to Germany. In background (with mustache), Ambassador Francois-Ponset; second from right, General Karl Bodenschatz; far right, Captain Paul Stehlin.
Right Bottom: Herschel Grynszpan after his arrest on November 7, 1938.


Left Top: Prime Minster Chamberlain held discussions with the Duce in Rome in January 1939. Center: Mussolinis son-in-law, Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano.
Left Bottom: Chamberlain and his Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, leaving the Palazzo Venezia.

Right Top: Emil Hacha, who had become Prsident following Benes resignation after Munich, with his Minister for War, General Jan Syrovy.
Right Bottom: German troops crossing the Charles Bridge in Prague on March 15, 1939.


Left: At an altitude of 5,274 feet, above Berchtesgaden, was Hitlers hideaway, the eagles nest. The road, the tunnels leading to the nest, the elevators and the house itself took three thousand laborers and three years to complete. Hitler was presented with the structure on his fiftieth birthday, April 20, 1939.

Right Top: SA and SS men assembled at the village of Oliva, in the Free City of Danzig, to hear Gauleiter Albert Forster boast that Danzig would return home to the Reich.
Right Bottom: Goose-stepping German police were a frequent sight in Danzig.

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