A gargantuan task!

I have been taking a little time away from this blog page in the past year or so as I have begun to gear up for the iron man of my writing career, something I've wanted to do for a long time and now have the ability to commence. I am writing a complete history of the 20th Century, I want to try to shoe horn it into about a million words, or 100 ebooks of about 10,000 words per chapter, but I suspect it might run over. You can see the first few products of my labours here. Anyway dear readers, here is how you can help; I definitely don't want to turn this massive life mission into the same old prosaic stuff (you know WWI, Roaring 20s, Depression, Hitler, Cold War, Vietnam, End of Communism, 9/11 and that's all folks) I think that would be a disingenuous and dishonest account, I am after comprehensiveness, depth, I want to include the cultural history of the century, I want to give Indonesians, Persians, Malawians, Chileans and Armenians as much of a voice as I give JM Keynes, General MacArthur or Leonid Bresznev, this has to be something more! It has to be greater than me, greater than all of us, a chronicle that is not constrained by size, something that Hobsbawm or Taylor would put into print if they had the infinate canvas presented to us by ebooks.

Sorry, I am getting ahead of myself, and freely accept that I am not even half the scholar of the two aforementioned....

Anyway, you might like the following:

The Roaring 20s and the Wall St Crash

Britain, France, Germany and the Treaty of Versailles

The Palmer Raids and the Red Scare, 1918-1920

Red Sun Rising: Japan, China and Europe 1894 -1941

Let me know what you think and where we should go from here!

Third Reich in 3D

Yes believe it or not, long before there was Avatar there was 3D film and it was the Third Reich that were ahead of the game in producing it, unspurprising, as Germany invented colour film as well, among other cinematic innovations in the 1930s. For the full story click here.

Kings Monkton Pupils History Pages

Here is a new site for Kings Monkton History Pupils at www. radiowaves.co.uk, it has entries from years 9 and 10 and we'll add to it as the year commences.

A history of ideas

Ladies and Gentlemen, the brilliant documentary maker Adam Curtis and his ground breaking 1992 Documentary Pandora's Box. These are films that prove to us, as if more proof were necessary, that 20th Century man was a very confused creature indeed.
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Read this on Nicholas II

Here's an article I recently wrote on Nicholas II

Check out my genius

I wrote this for the history times on the Soviet- Polish War of 1920, a brilliant piece of analysis even if I do say so myself.

Why did America have a tough time with the Vietminh?

Here is na excellent article that spells out the difficulties that America had in trying to defeat the Vietminh. They knew nothing of the history of struggle in Vietnam that had resulted from a millenia of resistance to Chinese occupation. The Vietnamese had fought off everyone from European settlers to Genghis Khan himself, they would be very difficult to defeat militarily, but harder still to break the morale of the nation.

Read here for more