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>________________________________ > De: "Editor, Finest Hour" <[email protected]> >Para: ChurchillChat <[email protected]> >Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 2 de Janeiro de 2012 16:09 >Assunto: [ChurchillChat] Re: Churchill's Deception > >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. > > > > -- 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.
