When I read history, I often wonder
what it must have felt like to live those events in real time, as I’m sure you
do. Did it seem an ominous moment in June 1914 when Gavrilo Princip shot
Archduke Franz-Ferdinand? If I were a Briton in September 1938, would I have had
an uneasy sense of foreboding watching the newsreel of Neville Chamberlain












