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British, American and Chinese Neoliberalism 1978-80
In the last years of the 1970s a fringe economic ideology captured the centre ground in Britain, America and China, transforming the world economy an…
8 years, 4 months ago
Barbarossa Part Two: Hunger and annihilation
Hitler, his ministers and many of his generals fully intended to fight a war of racial annihilation in Russia unlike anything previously seen. This p…
8 years, 4 months ago
Allied Divisions over Russia - 1919
The question of whether or not to negotiate with Russia and what form the allied intervention in the Russian Civil War should take divided Britain, F…
8 years, 4 months ago
A plan for 2018: Free Historical Literacy For All...
I am working on a plan and I need everyone's input to create a historical literacy course in these frighteningly confused times. Please listen and th…
8 years, 4 months ago
Operation Barbarossa: Part One
On June 22nd 1941 Nazi Germany and its allies launched the largest invasion in history against the Soviet Union. The attack on the USSR had consequen…
8 years, 4 months ago
British setbacks in the Desert War 1941-42
Despite impressive advances against the Axis powers in 1940 and 1941, the organisation and leadership of Rommel's Afrika Korps devastated Britain's p…
8 years, 5 months ago
Russian proto-fascism 1903-7
The prolonged crisis of the Russian Empire throughout the 19th and early 20th Centuries that resulted from the advance of modernisation led to the cr…
8 years, 5 months ago
Britain, Pakistan and the Partition of India
The British, aware of their imminent loss of world power in Asia, encouraged the partition of India. Military planners and politicians hoped that a M…
8 years, 5 months ago
Austria after the Anschluss 1938-45
The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany presented the country and its exiles with the first of several crises. The disastrous outcome of the war fo…
8 years, 5 months ago
Britain's war with Nazi Germany and Vichy France in Iraq and Syria: 1941
Despite British setbacks and failures in Greece and an overstretched force in North Africa, Churchill was determined to seize Syria from the French V…
8 years, 5 months ago