FINEST HOUR 152 (Autumn 2011, p 9) carried a note exploding the latest balloon floated over the Hess flight: that it was authorized by Hitler himself--part of the endless skein of imaginings to explain why Rudolf Hess, as he later told Albrecht Speer, was inspired to fly off to Britain "in a dream by supernatural forces."
Of the Kilzer book, Curt Zoller’s Annotated Bibliography of Works About Churchill (Armonk, NY: 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 reviewed Kilzer in Finest Hour 84, Third Quarter 1994, 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.” FH has reviewed hundreds of books over the years and we are trying to organize a ready reference on our website. In discussing a 2011 candidate for the books "we read so you don't have to," it was recommended recently that we have a gallery on our website of the truly awful. Kilzer's would seem 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.
