Let the fireworks begin! Sorry couldn't resist that.
Morning: The Eastern Front
A Broad Outline
Ribbentrop/Molotov Pact and Attack on Poland. Through the eyes of 'Mihail Sebastian'
Operation Barbarossa. German invasion of Russia 22.6.41
Anglo-Russian Alliance
Siege of Leningrad (890 days) 1941-44
Battle of Moscow 2.10.41 to 18.1.42
Battle of Stalingrad. A turning point in the war. 23.8.42 to 2-2.43
Reality of German Defeat
German POWs going over to Russians
Battle of Kursk 1943
To Berlin!
Battle of Berlin
Stalin: Old 'Friend' to New Enemy
Some Referenced Books:
Hitler and Stalin by Laurence Rees
Journal 1933-1944 by Mihail Sebastian (previously mentioned)
Afternoon: Lord Randolph Churchill and Sir Austen Chamberlain
Transformation of old Tory Party into new Conservative Party by Sir Robert Peel 1834/35
(Formation of Liberal Party, replacing old Whig Party)
Lord Randolph Churchill (1849-1895) and 'democratic Toryism': Nearly PM
The Chamberlain Dynasty
Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) and Liberal Unionism
Sir Austen Chamberlain (1863-1937). Twice a nearly man!
Some Referenced Books:
The Past Masters by Harold Macmillan
Chamberlain (Neville) by Graham Macklin
The Conservative Party by Robert Blake
My Early Life by Winston Churchill
Austen Chamberlain and the Burden of Expectation by Andrew Reekes
The Chamberlains by Roger Ward
Lord Randolph Churchill by RF Foster
Plus there is also a biography by Randolph's friend and political opponent Lord Rosebery as well as his son's biography (Hagiography?)
'See' you Thursday. KeepSafe, William