For Some, Britain Proved a Port in the Storm of War (Published 2017)

LAST HOPE ISLAND Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War By Lynne Olson Illustrated. 553 pp. Random House. $30. In September 1938, days before taking tea at Hitler’s Berchtesgaden hideaway to settle the fate of Czechoslovakia, Britain’s prime minister, Neville …