Neville Chamberlain – appeaser, wearer of ludicrous (even by the standards of the day) wing collars, the co-architect with Adolf Hitler of “peace in our time”, the Prime Minister willing to sell out the peoples of eastern Europe, who deliberately and repeatedly lied to the House of Commons and the nation about the German threat and Britain’s readiness to meet it – that Neville Chamberlain is the subject of this crisp and short book by Alistair Lexden, the Conservative historian.