Finest Hour 152 (Autumn 2011) carried a note (p9) deflating the latest balloon about the Hess flight being authorized by Hitler (another twist on the endless nonsense spawned when Rudolf Hess, as he later told Albrecht Speer, was inspired "in a dream by supernatural forces."
Of the Kilser book, Curt Zoller’s Annotated Bibliography of Works About Churchill (New York: Sharpe, 2004) carries this description: "A561. Kilzer, Louis C. Churchill's Deception: The Dark Secret That Destroyed Nazi Germany. New York & London: Simon & Schuster, 1994, 336 pp. The theme is that Churchill tricked Hitler into attacking the Soviet Union, a deception that led to the deaths of twenty million Russians, unleashed the Holocaust and eventually caused the Cold War. The author should have read Mein Kampf." Professor William Partin reviwed Kilzer’s book in Finest Hour 84, Third Quarter 1994 (page 22), which can be downloaded in a readable .pdf from our website: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/images/finesthour/Vol.01%20No.84.pdf Partin concluded: “Other than these unusual descriptions of Hitler—and the far-fetched claim of Churchill's deception—nothing about this book is new or worthwhile....The author's arguments about Churchill's great conspiracy to deceive Hitler and his alleged responsibility for the Holocaust and the Cold War are often so difficult to follow that (to use Kilzer's own words) "the conspiracy theory gets very complicated and, at times, borders on the absurd" (78)....There are numerous typographical and grammatical errors, and the name of one source (John Lukacs) is misspelled in both the text and the index. With so many problems in terms of both content and form, it would seem (to paraphrase Robert Browning) that Louis Kilzer's reach has exceeded his grasp.” In building a read-reference of the hundreds of books reviewed in FH over the years for our website, it was recommended recently that we have a gallery of the truly awful. This one would seem certainly to qualify. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
