Tag Archives: George Orwell

Titanic: Tragedy, Heroism, and a Lost World

Book Review of ‘A Night to Remember’, by Walter Lord

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 April 2024

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A Flawed Film Brings Attention to the Soviet Terror-Famine in Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 April 2023

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General Franco’s Intentions in the Second World War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 June 2021

Writing recently about the first meeting between Adolf Hitler and Francisco Franco at Hendaye on 23 October 1940, where the Führer tried to enlist Spain into the Axis, I concluded, drawing on Franco: The Man and His Nation by George Hills, a former BBC journalist and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society:

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