... General Strike That Shook Britain David Torrance. Bloomsbury, pp.288, 20. Nine Days in May: The General Strike of 1926 Jonathan Schneer. OUP, pp.432, ...#ajcook #british20th-centuryhistory #economics #ernestbevin #georgev #miners #politics #ramsaymacdonald #stanleybaldwin #tradeunions #waltercitrine
Why the General Strike of 1926 could never succeed | The Spectator Australia

After Japan's surrender in #WWII, Britain sent 26,000 troops to #Vietnam. Orders were simple: Help France regain its colony by stomping Vietnamese nationalists. #ThisDayInHistory soldiers wrote #ErnestBevin to ask why they were working with Japanese occupiers to crush Vietnamese.