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A few days of vacation in the Rocky Mountains is a good time to catch up on one's reading. But if I was looking for escape from the issues on which I spend most of my time, I didn't find it in "Churchill," the brief but penetrating biography by Paul Johnson, among the world's greatest living historians. In particular, Johnson's account of the 1930s holds up an eerie mirror to the present.
Johnson notes that when Hitler and the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, most Europeans failed to recognize either the nature or the gravity of the...
Nineteen Thirty Something
Those two weeks were all Britain and France had to organize their armies. Even then Britain blamed King Boeudwijn for surrendering. My grandparents families said he had no choice. The Belgian's were being annihilated. Entire villages were destroyed. Complete families were murdered. Their blood was flowing like water in the streets. King Bouedwijn sent a telegram informing the English and French leaders when he would be surrendering.
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because Roosevelt had encouraged the oil producing countries in the Far East to refuse to sell to Japan. Japan was being backed into a...