Volume 3: Issue: 2
Contents of History Today, February 1953 |
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Allen Cabaniss investigates rumour, propaganda and freedom of thought in the ninth century life of the late Carolingian empire. |
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Even after the Bomb-plot had failed, John Wheeler-Bennett shows how the Wehrmacht conspirators in Berlin had it in their grasp to overthrow Hitler and stop the war... |
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Arthur Waley describes Chinese civilization in the first and second centuries AD. |
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Accused of cowardice at the Battle of Minden, and often-cast for the role of villain when he was Colonial Secretary, Lord George Germain, writes Eric Robson,... |
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G. Goossens recalls the Assyrian monarchs, noted for their ferocity, great libraries, and achievements in agriculture and engineering. |
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David Woodward recounts how, after a voyage from the Baltic of 11,000 miles, the Russian Second Pacific Fleet was dramatically destroyed off the coast of Korea by... |
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R.J. White introduces Humphry Davy: the inventor of the safety-lamp and one of Britain's greatest chemists was by temperament a romantic poet and philosopher.... |
