Little Letterhole: Remembering the Prague Spring
ON 20 AUGUST 1968, half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers swarmed into Czechoslovakia. Within 24 hours, the whole country wasContinue Reading
Tag: modern history
Heritage of hate: How the Confederacy created Charlottesville
American white supremacists take their cues from a far older influence than the Nazis: the Confederate States of America, a nation dedicated to upholding and extending slavery.
Helmut Kohl and the peaceful revolution
Helmut Kohl, the mighty European statesman, has died. However, his pioneering achievement, the unification of Germany, was far from a certainty.
The lost clubs of old Germany
In the 1930s, Germany threatened to be a football power, finishing third in the 1934 World Cup. Then, they had a larger country from which to pick talent – an eastern province with a lost football history.
