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The Defence of India -
At the start of the Second World War, India had several overlapping defence concerns and Britain sought to place more cost and responsibility on the …
8 years ago
The Siege of Leningrad Pt 1
While the German Army prepared to seize Moscow, the longest siege of the war began at Leningrad on the Gulf of Finland. It would result in the deaths…
8 years, 1 month ago
America's post war boom (Part One) 1945-1973
An interventionist state, the capture of global markets and the destruction of economic opponents (Germany and Japan) and the loss of Britain's econo…
8 years, 1 month ago
Operation Typhoon: Hitler's failed bid to seize Moscow
After a summer and autumn of devastating defeats at the hands of the Wehrmacht, the Red Army was finally able to inflict a major setback on Hitler's …
8 years, 1 month ago
India's Congress Party and the Muslim League: 1939-40
Following the unilateral declaration of war by the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlithgow, in 1939 without consulting any of India's political parties, lo…
8 years, 1 month ago
David Lloyd George and Adolf Hitler: 1936
As Lloyd George's political career ebbed away and he became increasingly marginalised in British politics, his sympathies for Germany and his positiv…
8 years, 1 month ago
Barbarossa Part Six: The end of the offensive
Despite Germany's spectacular advances and the devastating defeats inflicted on the Red Army, Hitler failed to capture Moscow. In late October 1941 t…
8 years, 1 month ago
Anti Communism and America's Trade Unions 1945-49
In the half decade after the Second World War, the fortunes of America's trade union movement declined and communist led trade unions were ostracised…
8 years, 1 month ago
The Ottoman Empire and the July Crisis
In July 1914 as the final desperate negotiations to avoid war failed, the Ottoman Empire engaged in secret diplomacy with both Germany and Russia to …
8 years, 1 month ago
The Origins of MI5 1903-1909
Britain had a very limited internal security and overseas intelligence capability before the Boer War. However, a government and public obsessed with…
8 years, 1 month ago