The Phoney Victory: The World War II Delusion

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Jeff Brazier breaks down in tears as he pays tribute to his late ex Jade Goody as their son Bobby Brazier performs heartbreaking tribute to her on Strictly The general impression is that the end of hostilities brought a new sunlit era of optimism in a ravaged continent. Yet victory led swiftly to an appeasement of Stalin at least as bad as our appeasement of Hitler in 1938, with nations handed over bound and gagged to the Kremlin’s secret police regime. And the following months and years brought death on a colossal scale, of which we nowadays know almost nothing. Coronation Street's Tina O'Brien puts on a glamorous display in a red gown as she brings her daughter Scarlett to the Royal Television Society North West Awards I'm A Celeb fans GUTTED as they notice one ICONIC star missing from camp: 'What's happened to them?' I'm A Celebrity's Jamie Lynn Spears speaks out on Britney's iconic kiss with Madonna - and clears up how she feels about her sister amid feud rumours

Hitler had well-founded suspicions that the USA, far from being a friend to this country, was hostile to and jealous of the British Empire. Indeed, the Anglo-American alliance refused to solidify as long as Britain still appeared to Americans as a selfish, mean and bullying Great Power quite capable of looking after itself. Attitudes began to change only when Britain, admitting it was running out of money, came to America’s doorstep as a penniless supplicant, offering America the chance to save the world. Enough time has surely passed for us to admit that the military and political conduct of the war by our leaders was not always as good as it should have been, that the ‘Good War’ was often incompetently fought, with outdated equipment, by a country in decline. Events of the war, often minimised or avoided in popular or school histories, reveal a country seeking to be more important, rich and powerful than it was, and failing in all cases. Tiffany Haddish, 43, is seen for the FIRST TIME since her DUI arrest after she fell asleep at the wheel in the middle of the street Beauty fans race to buy new ceramide-rich skincare line that's so effective fine lines virtually DISAPPEAR: 'Have noticed results after using it morning and night'The Ministry of Information was staffed with former barristers, retired Indian civil servants, and various worthies who thought they knew what was best for everyone. They had no sense of how popular culture operated. As J B Priestley put it, it needed to be ‘a little less Lincoln’s Inn Fields and a little more Gracie Fields’.

My personal views on this are… ‘Not bad for 7 US divisions arriving at the front line in mid-1918 to fight alongside 65 British and 73 French Divisions. Three of the US Divs were well trained, while 4 were very poorly prepared. The morale effect of the Americans being there was essential, however it was tempered with a ‘Passive presence, which did indeed help the situation.’ What made the question difficult was not really the comparison. It wasn’t hard to conclude that foreign policy was, then as now, about national interest as seen by the government of the day and not about morality. It was clear from the documents Martin set me to read that public opinion in Britain in 1938 was vehemently opposed to war, making it impossible for the government to declare one. By September 1939 it was equally clear that British public opinion had swung round decisively in favour of a war with Germany, making it hard, to say the least, for the government not to.John Travolta shares sweet video of son Ben as he and daughter Ella wish him a happy 13th birthday: 'I can't believe my baby boy is now a teenager' Will skin 'paste' replace skin grafts as the future of tending to burns? New technique takes tiny patch of...

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