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Title: Churchill's War Volume II: Triumph in Adversity by David Irving ISBN: 1-872197-15-9 Publisher: Focal Point Publications Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Exercise your own judgement
Comment: This is the second part of Irving's Churchill 'biography'. It is fascinating reading, but tends not to be a easy a read as his first volume. The fact that Irving is not an admirer of his subject is clearly evident, but it seems that only people outside the UK have this uncritical mythic view of Churchill that certainly does not stand up to reality. Personally I find Irving's view of Churchill to be refreshng and probably the most truthful version of the man thats out there to be read. Churchill is painted as an intelligent, uncompromising and rather ruthless individual on one hand and sympathethic, understanding and somewhat noble gentleman on the other. This book is far more ballenced than the worthless and grovelling 'biography' that Martin Gilbert wrote.
Forget all the nonsense and hyperbole that surrounds Irving and his enforced labelling and read the book, in fact I would urge eveybody to read any Irving book and then make up your own mind and not be swayed by the biased opinions of other people.
Rating: 1
Summary: Much Ado About Nothing
Comment: This is a beautifully printed work with an eye-catching cover but from a historian's viewpoint, filled with information that just simply cannot be checked out. It is plainly evident that the author does not like his subject and this dislike is evident on every page. Churchill was a great, if often badly flawed, leader of wartime Britain and this book is not balanced in any sense at all. This is little more than a ... polemic. One ought, at the very least,to damn with faint praise.
Rating: 2
Summary: Times Change
Comment: Author Irving wrote a significant work on the Allied destruction of the undefended Saxon museum city of Dresden in 1945. It was well-researched and carefullly written. That was a long time ago and Irving, who has churned out many other books in the meantime, has never lived up to his initial promise. The Churchill books are thinly written and display the author's animosity towards his subject on every page. His works on Adolf Hitler and his people, on the other hand, glow with unfeigned appreciation and praise. A good historian, if he is worth the title, should write with objectivity and not to a preconceived idea. In all of Irving's books one can find signs of considerable research and this alone is their primary worth. Irving has been able, in years past, to locate and utilize many hitherto obscure diaries and letters. However, that having been said, what Irving does with this information is quite another matter. For a researcher and persons possessing in-depth knowledge of Irving's subject, these books, including the ones now under review, have considerable merit. For those newly arrived at the subject of 20th Century political history, the Irving books should be taken with much greater care. Irving initially denounced the notorious fake "Hitler Diaries" and then, seeing that they were being accepted by the British media, reversed himself and proclaimed them to be absolutely genuine. It has been said that Irving was the first person to call these documents fake and the last to authenticate them. The Churchill books have much of valuable technical interest in them but precious little objectivity.
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Title: Churchill's War (Volume 1) The Struggle for Power by David John Cawdell Irving ISBN: 0947117563 Publisher: Veritas Books (CN) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1987 List Price(USD): $70.00 |
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Title: Goring: A Biography by David Irving ISBN: 0688066062 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 February, 1989 List Price(USD): $47.00 |
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Title: Hitler's War and the War Path by David Irving, Walter Frentz ISBN: 1872197108 Publisher: Focal Point Pub. Date: 20 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Hitler's War by David Irving ISBN: 0380758067 Publisher: Harpercollins (P) Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Devil's Disciples: Hitler's Inner Circle by Anthony Read ISBN: 0393048004 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: March, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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