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Jeremy Irons as Neville Chamberlain, in Munich – The Edge of War

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A martyr and a hero? How Munich – The Edge of War tries to soften Neville Chamberlain’s rotten reputation

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Sudeten-Germans Salute the Arrival of Nazi Guards in Czechoslovakia, 1938

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Neville Chamberlain holds aloft the famous piece of paper at Heston aerodrome on 30 September 1938. (Picture by Alamy)

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The Munich agreement: a battle with Hitler that almost brought down the government

Neville Chamberlain shows off the Anglo-German Declaration at Heston Aerodrome

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Q&A Peace for our time: what was written on Neville Chamberlain’s piece of paper?

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A group of worshippers praying in a chapel in Ireland, during the Irish famine, c1848. (Photo by Illustrated London News/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A Why do some people call the Irish famine ‘the Great Hunger’?