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