Tag: Munich

Written by Edwin Sandy Jordan

A Gentleman and a Gangster

Neville Chamberlain, British Prime Minister from 1937 until May 1940, has a poor reputation among most historians.  After all, it was Chamberlain who returned from Munich in October 1938 after a disastrous deal with Hitler and proclaimed “Peace in our time.” The problem for Chamberlain was that he was a gentleman dealing with a gangster.  […]

Written by Edwin Sandy Jordan

War and Madness

At 11 a.m. on November 11, 1918, the guns fell silent, thus ending a terrible conflict that had ranged over much of the world, cost as many as twenty million lives, destroyed ancient kingdoms and empires, and ripped apart the social fabric of Europe.  It was called the Great War and the “War to end […]