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War Reporting on the Western Front 1914-15
Initially, all sides in the First World War were wary and suspicious of journalists, fearing they would give away vital intelligence or impede the progress of the war. Later, as the conflict dragged …
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Churchill's 'Fight Them On The Beaches' Speech June 1940
Expecting to report to the House of Commons a terrible military disaster, Winston Churchill on June 4th 1940, gave the most important speech of his career and the most famous speech of the 20th Centu…
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Woodrow Wilson and the Paris Peace Conference 1919
In December 1918 US president Woodrow Wilson set sail for Europe to build a lasting peace after four years of devastating war. The principled but often dogmatic Wilson wanted to create a more democra…
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British Propaganda and the First World War
In Phillip Knightley's seminal account of war reporting 'The First Casualty', the British came to excel in distorting war reporting and influencing public thinking, presenting the war as the 'Great s…
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China in 1945
After eight years of devastating war with Japan, China found an uncertain peace in the summer of 1945, which would soon come crashing down. The civil war between the Nationalists and Communists was t…
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Churchill and Roosevelt 1939-1940
In 1939 American diplomats were certain that Britain and France faced defeat and Roosevelt would have to play the role of peace broker. A new prime minister in 1940, Winston Churchill, spoke the lang…
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Stalin, Mao and the Korean War
The outbreak of war in the Korean peninsula in 1950 was preceded by half a decade of careful consideration by Stalin and an desire by Mao to take on the capitalist world. Prior to this, Korea had bee…
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Foreign workers in Hitler's Germany 1939-45
Hitler's war industries experienced critical manpower shortages throughout the war and the solution was to import millions of foreign workers from allied and conquered territories. However, this prof…
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Pre War German Jewish Culture and Indentity
The horrors of the Holocaust have shaped how we see Germany and Europe's Jews, mainly as victims. However, German Jews were among the most emancipated and assimilated diasporas in the world prior to …
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Truman and the founding of the CIA - 1947
In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, a skeptical Harry Truman abolished America's only spy agency the OSS, without a replacement. Within two years, as British military and intelligence…
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