The man who wanted to be king

At the beginning of the summer of 1939, the famous French geographer Albert Demangeon published at Hachette a manual on Europe, intended for the terminal classes. It was an exceptional document, a kind of instantanous continent like Hitler just redesigned it after a series of blows of force, from the Anschluss to the annexation of the Czech Republic, to the Munich Conference, but before the outbreak of the Second World War. A diversion, however,…