Reply To: Poland 1939 – Preparing for 80th Anniversary of World War II

[bobcockayne 20723xp 1]

@oriskany , nice breakdown here, and interesting points on the British historical emphasis : I have experienced when doing my open university degree in the 1990’s

I know when one of my degree coursed modules, :War peace and social change 1914 to 195o they broke down WW2 to various separate wars, 1939-1941 European war etc. (So if you do that China would count,) but for most of us the official date is the one most know (if they know a date at all)

Not sure I agreed with it, but then I wasn’t popular as I was a military historian and not a social one, it was frightening that these were lecturers and how much of the actual military history they got wrong. Plus I agreed a lot with AJP Taylor interpretations on war origins, and he was currently out of vogue.