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The best book yet on the causes of the First World War
As the anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War approached, a number of new books appeared to explain what happened in 1914. I have read most of the new books published in English, including those by historians Christopher Clark, Margaret Macmillan, Max Hastings, and Sean McMeekin, but in my opinion, the best book on the subject appeared in April this year. It was the product of 14 years’ work and was written by the German historian Dr. Markus Osterrieder PhD of Munich. It presents a more comprehensive and far-reaching...
read moreKaspar Hauser; Erste Weltkrieg; Beziehung England und Deutschland
Terry Boardman, Vortrag: Kaspar Hauser, der Erste Weltkrieg und die Beziehung zwischen England und Deutschland Kaspar-Hauser-Festspiele 2014, Ansbach, Deutschland 2. August 2014 Guten morgen. Ich möchte Eckart Böhmer danken, mir die Gelegenheit zu geben nochmal hier bei den Kaspar Hauser Festspielen zu sprechen, zu diesem Thema das nicht nur für unser Verständnis der Vergangenheit so wichtig ist sondern auch für die Zukunft Europas. Ich muß aber mit zwei Bitten um Ihre Entschuldigung beginnen. Erstens, daß ich mein Vortag im...
read moreThe First World War & the Ukraine Crisis: 1914 – 2014
This article was first published in New View magazine Issue 71 April-June 2014 What is the connection between the world catastrophe that broke out in 1914 and the current crisis in Ukraine, a hundred years later? To attempt to answer this question we can start by considering the relationship between three large cultural groups of people, those in southern, northern and eastern Europe: the Latins or Romance peoples, the Germanic peoples and the Slavic peoples. In the 8th cent. BC the Germanic peoples of northern Europe were what the already...
read more“37 Days” BBC World War 1 drama – A Critique
It’s as General Helmuth von Moltke once wote to his wife, nearly 10 years before 1914, that (non verbatim) a whole stream of lies is being put out from England about Germany and its aims. Yesterday I watched the last of the 3 episodes of the BBC drama “37 Days”. It’s essentially set in the Foreign Offices of Britain and Germany between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 and Britain’s declaration of war on Germany 4 August 1914. For those who haven’t...
read moreSyriana? Part 2
This article was first published in New View magazine #70 Jan. – Mar. 2014 The first part of this article (in New View #69 Oct-Dec2013) outlined some of the economic and geopolitical aspects to the current war in Syria. Since it was written and published, there have been major developments in the region. Following a vote rejecting military action against Syria by the UK Parliament on 29 August, US President Barack Obama called off what had seemed in late August to be an imminent western attack on Syria after unproven Anglo-American...
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This article was first published in New View magazine No.69 Oct – Dec 2013 The movie “Syriana” (director Stephen Gaghan; producer and lead actor George Clooney) came out in Dec. 2005. The complex, realistic, tense and dramatic multi-layered account of oil politics, terrorism and the CIA in the Middle East made for a fascinating story which also had at its heart personal...
read moreMAPPING THE MILLENNIUM Reissue May 2013
My first book Mapping the Millennium – Behind the Plans of the New World Order (original cover shown on this page) , first published in 1998 by Temple Lodge Publishing of London, out of print for the last few years and hard to come by, has been re-issued by the same publishers since May 2013. It is available via the usual outlets price £13.99. See http://www.templelodge.com/pages/viewbook.php?isbn_in=9781906999483 or click on the link to a .pdf below to see the new cover: Mapping the Millennium – Behind the Plans of the New...
read moreAnnika Mombauer – Her Book on von Moltke Refuted
Annika Mombauer – A Critical Review of her book Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War (Cambridge University Press 2001 Terry Boardman (Oct. 2002, revised Feb. 2014) This detailed critical review of Annika Mombauer’s book Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War (CUP, 2001) was first presented to a small historical research group that met in Bottmingen, Switzerland in the autumn of 2002. It is published here for the first time. Mombauer’s book is a travesty as a piece of historical...
read moreBeneath the European Crisis
This article first appeared in New View magazine Spring 2011 As 2011 draws to a close we are being told from all sides of the corporate-controlled media that if Europe’s politicians – and by this is usually meant in particular Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Europe’s strongest economy – do not do ‘the right thing’ within the next few days before the upcoming EU Summit in Paris (8-9 Dec.), which will be the 5th on the subject of European debt since the Greek crisis broke out last year 2010 and...
read moreAxiomata and Metanoia – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century
This essay was first published in New View magazine Issue 63 June-August 2012 Axiomata and Metanoia (1) – Changing Our Minds in the 21st Century The Mood of the New Century Under the surface of all the turmoil of the new 21st century has been the burgeoning hype surrounding “the 2012 phenomenon”: will the world end in 2012 because of the supposed predictions of the Mayan Calendar? (2) There are conflicting moods of apocalypticism and messaianic millenarianism such as have occurred before at the turning of...
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