Thomas Graham’s Diary – 25th August 1939
In this entry, Thomas reflects on the loss of life in the First World War, just 25 years before this. One of the biggest factors in the support for appeasement […]
In this entry, Thomas reflects on the loss of life in the First World War, just 25 years before this. One of the biggest factors in the support for appeasement […]
Graham focuses again on his personal experience of war from conflicts past, and shares a conversation he has had recently in which mental health is discussed and the idea of […]
This entry discusses the mobilisation of millions of German troops near the Polish border, and Thomas’s pessimism regarding the outlook of events. By the end of the month, Hitler had […]
Graham’s August entries open with a short one, which gets straight to the point. On the anniversary of Britain’s entry into World War One, only 25 years previously, Graham conveys […]
This entry focuses primarily on Hermann Rauschning, the author of Graham’s latest read which warns of the dangers posed by Hitler and the Nazi party. Rauschning (1887-1982) was a German […]
Graham continues in the personal vein of the previous entry, where in amongst his observations and updates on current affairs, he takes time to reflect and becomes philosophical. The pretty, […]
This entry is quite different from those that we have focused on so far from Graham, with regards to the discussion being dominated by his own personal account of what […]
This entry refers initially to Japan and what happened on the 14th of June and came to be known as the Tientsin Incident. This was an international incident when the […]
Once again, Thomas is reading a newly released book about politics. This time it is Francis Yeats-Brown’s work entitled ‘The European Jungle’. Yeats-Brown was an interesting character, decorated in the […]
In his next diary entry, Thomas explores the best time to start a war and the works of Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher. Thomas begins this entry by stating that […]