British Conservative Party politician, journalist, and Secretary of State for India and Burma Leo Amery in May 1940. Elliott & Fry/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Britain slept in the 1930s as an inevitable war with Hitler loomed.
Victor Davis Hanson
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Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and military historian. He is a professor emeritus of classics at California State University, a senior fellow in classics and military history at Stanford University, a fellow of Hillsdale College, and a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Mr. Hanson has written 17 books, including “The Western Way of War,” “Fields Without Dreams,” “The Case for Trump,” and “The Dying Citizen.”