This text studies the Czechoslovak-German crisis and its impact from previously neglected perspectives and celebrates the post-Cold War openness by bringing in new evidence from hitherto inaccessible archives.

Chapter 1 Reflections on Munich after 60 Years, Gerhard L. Weinberg; Chapter 2 Stalin and Czechoslovakia in 1938-39: An Autopsy of a Myth, Igor Lukes; Chapter 3 The Munich Crisis of 1938: Plans and Strategy in Warsaw in the Context of the Western Appeasement of Germany, Anna M. Cienciala; Chapter 4 The Munich Crisis and Hungary: The Fall of the Versailles Settlement in Central Europe, Magda ÁdÁm; Chapter 5 France and the Czechoslovak Crisis, Martin Thomas; Chapter 6 War and Peace: Mussolini's Road to Munich, G. BRUCE STRANG; Chapter 7 Germany and the Munich Crisis: A Mutilated Victory?, Richard Overy; Chapter 8 The Munich Crisis and British Propaganda Policy in the United States, Nicholas J. Cull; Chapter 9 Searching for Peace in Munich, not Geneva: The British Government, the League of Nations and the Sudetenland Question, Peter J. Beck; Chapter 10 Nevile Henderson and Basil Newton Two British Envoys in the Czech Crisis 1938, Peter Neville; Chapter 11 Neville Chamberlain, the British Official Mind and the Munich Crisis, Erik Goldstein; Chapter 12 Agents and Structures: The Dominions and the Czechoslovak Crisis, September 1938, Michael Graham Fry; Chapter 13 China, the Sino-Japanese Conflict and the Munich Crisis, Hsi-Huey Liang;