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Churchill revisited
In the Washington Post, a review of a clutch of books, including Pat Buchanan's controversial revisionist study which argues that Britain should have given Hitler a free hand in eastern Europe:
As in all counter-factual history, many stubborn actualities must be minimized or skirted.Buchanan presses this shaky argument with boldness and brio, but it is unclear that he has digested the secondary sources he mentions in more than 1,500 footnotes and quotations. For instance, he frequently cites the Oxford historian Niall Ferguson but largely ignores Ferguson's own assessment of Churchill's heroic defiance of Hitler. In his recent Empire, Ferguson calls Hitler's offer to split the world with Britain a "diabolical temptation . . . wholly insincere" and writes that "Churchill, to his eternal credit, saw through Hitler's blandishments.
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