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The Italo Turkish War
In 1911 Italy launched an opportunist war against the Ottoman Empire for control of Libya. Despite the huge costs and the unexpected guerrilla war th…
8 years, 7 months ago
America, USSR, Britain and the development of the atomic bomb
The wartime Manhattan project resulted in unforseen diplomatic tensions between the three powers and gave America unprecedented power which President…
8 years, 7 months ago
American and British Volunteers at the Battle of Jarama, 1937
Poorly equipped and with virtually no training, the American and British volunteers in the International Brigades, along with French, German, Belgian…
8 years, 7 months ago
Hitler and the creation of the 'Fuhrer State'
The insertion of a highly personalised dictatorship into Germany's previously highly functional bureaucratic state and the gradual erosion of barrier…
8 years, 7 months ago
The Fall and Rise of European Tensions 1909-11
A temporary lull in imperial tensions, arms races and the threat of a major European war was illusory in the last years before the First World War. T…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Nazi Party 1933
Nazi Germany was more than simply a personal dictatorship and the manner in which the chaotic and restless Nazi movement captured and infiltrated all…
8 years, 8 months ago
Franco's march on Madrid: 1936
As fascist armies raced across Spain to seize the capital they committed horrific war crimes against Spanish workers and peasants. Madrid braced itse…
8 years, 8 months ago
The CIA and early anti Soviet Operations
The development of the CIA by 1949 into a well funded unaccountable agency with the scope for paramilitary operations against the USSR, meant that po…
8 years, 8 months ago
Emerging Nations and the Paris Peace Conference
Peacemakers at the Paris Peace Conference attempted to build new nation states out of the chaos of four collapsed empires. However, events on the gro…
8 years, 8 months ago
The Office of the Fuhrer
Hitler's capture of Germany's Government saw the introduction of Nazi ideas that sought to abolish the normal functioning of constitutional systems o…
8 years, 8 months ago