One hundred years ago when passengers boarded the Lusitania on May 1, 1915, London was the most important city in the world. The Great War and World War II changed all that. Now New York is the place to be…. Continue Reading →
_ Tomorrow Queen Mary II starts a virtual Transatlantic cruise from New York to Southampton. If there had been such capability almost one hundred years ago on May 1, 1915, German terrorists couldn’t have sneaked aboard with their bombs. And… Continue Reading →
_ Halifax received all sorts of letters from British aristocrats in April, 1939 advising him to continue the policy of appeasement. Maybe the working class had turned against Hitler since his invasion of Czechloslovakia in March, but the upper classes… Continue Reading →
_ As a result of World War I, the Great War, it was considered very smart indeed to avoid war at all costs. That’s why Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain were Prime Ministers of England before World War II started…. Continue Reading →
_ On the way home in traffic after dinner we turned on a CD playing speeches that Churchill made. We soon forgot about the traffic as we listened to what he had to say to the British people in the… Continue Reading →
_ The mood in London in May of 1940 was very defeatist. Ladies talk about putting sand in the hallways and filling their bathtubs with water. They also were careful to remove photos from the walls. They were preparing to… Continue Reading →
Amiens in Northern France was the town where the British clashed with the Germans in May of 1940. Everything was at stake. They had their backs to the English Channel. The Germans hadn’t gotten this close to England even in… Continue Reading →
_ The Germans reached the English Channel on May 20, 1940. If Hitler had given the word, his generals might have crossed the Channel before anyone could prepare to resist them. Certainly they could have taken all the British soldiers… Continue Reading →
_ If Hitler had consolidated his moves in late 1938 after the Munich Accords and not invaded the rest of Czechslovakia in March of 1939 we would not have had the Second World War. He would not have provoked the… Continue Reading →
_ Churchill became Prime Minister on May 10, 1940. For the next two weeks Hitler won battle after battle and had England on the run. The British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk was trapped on the coast of France. Their prospects… Continue Reading →
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