What Can We Learn From a Nazi Time Capsule? Contemporary Poland eulogises the Nazi German partition and brutal occupation that occurred between 1939-1945 – an occupation that
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How the West Will Lose its Culture
The West is playing a dangerous game with the lives of its own citizens.
Tom Wintringham – How an Oxford Communist Founded the Home Guard
Tom Wintringham returned to the UK after the Spanish Civil War and worked as a journalist. He used his experience of fighting fascism in Spain to call for the establishment of a ‘Home Guard’ in the UK made-up of ordinary people defending the area within which they lived from the threat of armed invasion. He wrote a number of progressive books on modern warfare which emphasized guerrilla fighting but were also critical of the class-based system of the UK military. This Communistic thinking immediately made him unpopular with the rightwing Winston Churchill and the middle class officer corps.
