Thomas Graham’s Diary – 9th & 10th April 1939
‘I simply could NOT read this book. It is like a peculiarly dull sermon’. In his next entry, Thomas spends his Easter weekend reading ‘Mein Kampf’. In 1925, Adolf Hitler […]
‘I simply could NOT read this book. It is like a peculiarly dull sermon’. In his next entry, Thomas spends his Easter weekend reading ‘Mein Kampf’. In 1925, Adolf Hitler […]
In his next diary entry, Thomas makes reference to a brief but important military campaign that would push Europe closer to full scale war. On 7th April 1939, Italy invaded […]
Thomas Graham’s dairy entry for the 6th April makes a reference to the annexation of Austria by Germany in March 1938. Thomas took a keen interest in current affairs and […]
As a veteran of the Great War, you can see throughout Graham’s entries that he is frustrated and disappointed that another war of huge scale is becoming a closer reality […]
Following on from his previous day’s entry, Thomas turns his attention to pondering the causes of the present situation, and what factors were most to blame for war inevitably breaking […]
Graham’s next diary entry focuses on the subject of Russia and its leader for the first time. His description of the country’s “murderous ruler” clearly conveys his opinion of Joseph […]
In 1939, Liddell Hart was a military correspondent for the ‘The Times’ newspaper. Thomas Graham viewed Hart as far too pessimistic in his outlook on the war due to his […]
In this diary entry, Thomas again refers to Mussolini, this time in the context of his attitude to France. The Fascist Grand Council is not a pejorative term, it is […]
As we enter February 1939, we the see the first appearance of another key figure of WW2. Thomas writes that a BBC report suggesting American President Franklin Roosevelt had been […]
After the previous day’s entry mentioning the likelyhood of a victory for General Franco in the Spanish Civil War, Thomas talks at greater length about the conflict here. He appears […]