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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.
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