conrad black: amateur leaders, not evil men, brought ruin to the world
As an officer-candidate in the Metz military school he had learned from the booming of the German guns at the end of the Franco-Prussian war in 1871 that Metz had become a city of the German Empire. ... A photo taken on Nov. 11, 1918, shows signatories of the Armistice treaty between the Allies and..…