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British prime minister Clement Attlee reading a document in his office, 27 July 1946. (Photo by Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Michael X, (right, foreground) black power advocate, in Hyde Park. (Photo by Terence Spencer/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

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Historical novelist Robert Harris, whose latest book 'Munich' explores the events at the 1938 Munich Conference. (Alamy)

Neville Chamberlain is underestimated, argues author Robert Harris

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