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Re-reading Tim Bouverie's terrific history of appeasement, and I'd forgotten this: One of the retrospective defences offered is that the Munich capitulation "bought us time". That's not quite correct. Germany wasn't ready, and the delay benefitted it proportionately more than

Re-reading Tim Bouverie's terrific history of appeasement, and I'd forgotten this: 

One of the retrospective defences offered is that the Munich capitulation "bought us time". That's not quite correct.  Germany wasn't ready, and the delay benefitted it proportionately more than