© Paul Hemphill 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021.  All rights reserved. The great and the good, the wise and the weary, have all offered a definition of ‘history’. To Napoleon, it was “a myth that men agree to believe”. Historian Marc Bloch observed that it was “an endeavour towards better understanding”. His Nazi killers disagreed – … Continue reading A Short History Of The Rise And Fall Of The West