Guilty Men

Guilty Men was a book published in Great Britain in 1940 that attacked British public figures for their appeasement of Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It is regarded as the classic denunciation of appeasement and is said to have shaped popular thinking for twenty years.

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Famous quotes containing the words guilty and/or men:

    “Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

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