ABSTRACT
Ms. Margaret Macmillan is a Canadian-British historian, author of an excellent and much-praised study of the Versailles peace treaty of 1919, warden of an Oxford college. Her recent book Dangerous Games: Tthe Uses and Abuses of History is timely; there has been an inflation of unhelpful and downright misleading historical analogies and comparison. Gestapo and Gulag are too often adduced when they do not belong and even “appeasement” may not always be fatal. Kipling’s Danegeld
