The Phoney Victory: The World War II Delusion

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He then awkwardly tries to justify his revisionism by triumphally announcing that “This is was not, as some claim, a righteous response to Germany’s notorious bombings of Rotterdam.

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The Führer is too often the ghost at the feast in British popular histories of the Second World War such as this one. No doubt- the National Socialists were more evil than the Allies- that is indisputable- but that does not absolve the Allies of some of their appalling and excessive crimes against innocent women and children, many of whom were German.Others reading the book will gather that the ‘Left’ will quickly latch on to these thoughts and carry them forward to the future. Like his brother Christopher, Peter does sometimes love going into excessive detail about an Evelyn Waugh novel. The reason for this shift was also obvious: the incorporation of the German-speaking Sudetenland into Hitler’s Reich was justifiable in terms of the principle of “national self-determination” that lay at the foundation of the peace settlement at the end of the First World War, a principle that seemed, unfairly, to apply to every country in Europe except Germany. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. S. did to Britain (which could be justified by the fact that in 1934, Britain defaulted on its enormous debt to the U.

The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion: Peter Hitchens

The seeds of the great dissent felt bu the British people started right after VE day when the ‘victors’ were subjected to years of austerity and hardship. Attacking what he says are the ideas “we” hold about the Second World War, Hitchens picks some easy targets – the strategic bombing campaign, including the huge raids on Hamburg and Dresden for example, or Hitler’s largely propagandistic threat to invade Britain in 1940. Peter Hitchens believes that in Britain, myths about World War II infest policy making and cause bad decisions. Peter Hitchens expresses his concerns that myths of WWII are used as justifications for wars and military actions. At the same time, Hitchens rightly states that Poland was not a “bastion of democracy,” as it was governed by an authoritarian and anti-Semitic regime.The notion of European integration (with the European Union as the embodiment of that idea) is seen by Hitchens as something of a sinister nature. Without doubt one of the finest books I've read about World War II, busts the myths and explains in forensic detail the futility of the conflict on all sides. While many "bulldog patriots" find it impossible to imagine a patriotic right-wing commentator criticising Britain's role in World War II, Mr Hitchens shatters the myth that only crazy SJWs or professional race-baiters can be critical of Winston Churchill et al. It lists over a hundred treaties, many of them were of course Top Secret during their time and were made between the Major powers in Europe, some treaties includes the US and Japan. S.), namely Britain confiscated all gold of the Polish state that the Polish army managed to rescue from occupied Poland in September 1939 (he merely mentions that “Britain was even borrowing from the Czech government in exile”, p.