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Hitler’s “Tet Offensive”: Churchill and the Austrian Anschluss, 1938
05
Nov
2020
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By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH
Breathless media admiration of Hitler’s Anschluss obscured German military deficiencies that might have mattered if the democracies had stood firm.
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How Churchill Dodged the Flu Pandemic, and Others Were Not So Lucky
13
Apr
2020
By JOHN H. MAURER
Historical close calls, during the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918-21, remind us of the role of illness and chance in the fate of nations and their leaders.