The lies told by the Republican forces to the media after the bombing of Guernica on 26 April 1938 caused World War II in Europe. Proving the old saying Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

And now I’ll tell you why that happened.

Tag words: Guernica; Malcolm Gladwell; World War II; Antony Beevor; Wolfram von Richthofen; David & Goliath – Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants; HG Wells; The Shape of Things to Come; Things to Come; Basque; James Corum; Condor Legion; Bombing of Hamburg; bombing of Dresden; Munich Crisis; Herman Göring; Adolf Hitler; Pablo Picasso;