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The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial 1920-1927
The politically motivated trial of Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti is examined in depth here, courtesy of Eric Foner's 1977 essay The Men and t…
8 years, 8 months ago
America, Palestine and Jewish Immigration 1945-48
At the end of the Second World War an American survey of Jewish survivors in Europe recommended mass Jewish immigration into Palestine. President Har…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Fall of France Part One
A series of disastrous miscalculations led the French Army and the British Expeditionary Force to fall into the German Army's trap in 1940. The fall …
8 years, 8 months ago
Journalists and the Spanish Civil War
The conflict in Spain attracted writers and correspondents from around the world and excited passions among their readers in Europe and America. Many…
8 years, 8 months ago
Georges Clemenceau and the Paris Peace Conference 1919
By the end of the First World War, French Prime Minister Clemenceau knew that France's security relied on maintaining an Anglo American alliance with…
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Hitler, Franco and the Spanish Civil War
The election of a left wing Popular Front government in Spain triggered a coup by rebel generals against the Second Spanish Republic. Hitler and Muss…
8 years, 8 months ago
Mao'hird Front 1964-1980
Following the disaster of the Great Leap Forward and during Mao's attempts at reclaiming his power, a vast new initiative to defend western China was…
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Hitler's Invasion of Norway: April 1940
Chaos, incompetence and poor intelligence by the British and French handed Hitler an easy victory in Norway, seizing a vital source of raw materials.…
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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 pr…
8 years, 8 months ago
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 c…
8 years, 9 months ago