Compelling and a lesson not to be forgotten-----The war that saved Europe from Communism - UnHerd

The war that saved Europe from Communism - UnHerd

• A century ago only the Polish army stood between Bolsheviks and a severely weakened Europe

"Edgar Vincent is one of those politicians who has slipped from public consciousness almost completely. 
Once a prominent businessman, an MP and British Ambassador to Germany, he was elevated to the peerage in 1914 as 1st Viscount D’Abernon, a title that died with him when he passed away in 1941.
In one regard, however, Vincent did leave a legacy. 
His memoir of one of the salient periods of his career — his time as a British Envoy to Warsaw in 1920 — made the grand claim that the fight for the Polish capital that summer was one of the most important battles in world history; alongside Marathon, Blenheim and Hastings. 
Yet, the Battle of Warsaw — like much of Polish history — is almost unknown to English-speaking audiences.
The year 1920 was one of chaotic flux across much of Europe. 
...Warsaw in 1920 represented that rare thing in history: a moment of genuine existential peril, akin to the Battle of Britain or Waterloo. 
We in the English-speaking world would do well to remember it."
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