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    The wrong war?

    Mar 25, 2021 3 minutes
    Jeremy Black

    CRITICISMS OF THE BRITISH for living in a Second World War past are frequent. Sean McMeekin, professor of history at Bard College and a talented scholar of the First World War, takes an alternative view by arguing that we are generally living in the wrong war. Drawing on an impressive array of international archives, McMeekin, who acknowledges his debt to Norman Stone, directs attention to Soviet activity.

    This, however, does not arise from some attempt to praise the Soviet Union as an ally against Germany

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