‘Most of us can be happy, if not extravagantly merry this Christmas. Most of us, but not all.’
- Principal of South College, Durham University
President Trump’s one-to-one summit with Vladimir Putin risks repeating an error that paved the way to the second world war
In threatening to walk away from efforts to end the war in Ukraine, the US president is ignoring crucial lessons about the consequences of appeasement.
Back in 1940, FDR wasn’t convinced that de Gaulle could be an effective leader in exile. It turns out he was wrong.
Precision bombing cost the lives of too many aircrew to be sustainable.
American newspaper correspondents reporting the fighting in the first world war succumbed to intense pressure to self-censor.
Between 1939 and 1945, Pope Pius XII put the interests of the Catholic Church in Germany before the fate of European Jews.
How newspapers reported the risk of war in the age of appeasement.
In 1943, Britons thought the war was nearly over − but another 18 months of hardship and a decade of rationing lay ahead.
British foreign correspondents predicted a ‘long-term security problem’ for Israel.
British media coverage of the creation of the state of Israel reflected the concerns of the government at the time.
If truth is the first casualty of war, so are the journalists who risk their lives to report it.
By the fourth festive season into the war, rationing was biting – but good news from the front and the generosity of US soldiers helped keep morale buoyant.
The failure of bombing campaigns during the second world war and Vietnam shows that to win a war you have to capture territory.
A cautionary tale for the UK press .
While most daily newspapers presented the conflict as black and white, weeklies presented readers with a more sophisticated and nuanced take.
The case showed how American justice meted out to US troops in second world war England was often racially biased.
Digital technology allows reporters and citizen journalists more freedom than ever to bring fast, accurate information from war zones. There are also a few lies.
Oleksandra Kushynova, a fixer with Fox News, was killed along with the cameraman she was working with.
It took nearly two years for the Royal Navy to tell the story of the heroic voyage of the crippled submarine HMS Triumph.
Critics of the UK’s public broadcaster will be sharpening their knives over the latest scandal.
The Post’s editor, Arthur Mann, withstood extreme pressure to fall in with orthodox political thinking over appeasement with Nazi Germany.
In the early days of the second world war, a Nazi propagandist broadcasting to England built up a large following.
Despite rationing and the Blitz, Christmas on the domestic front in 1940 was cheerful and optimistic.
Press secretary George Steward had clandestine meetings with Nazi officials as he worked for appeasement with Germany before the second world war.
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