The Phoney Victory: The World War II Delusion

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In this audiobook, Peter Hitchens deconstructs the many fables which have become associated with the narrative of the 'Good War'. I know the most difficult bit for my dad would be acknowledging and comin to terms with what RAF Bomber Command did. Appeasement is the magic word, the killer app, the compelling knell of imminent doom in military policy debate. Snowflakes will delight in it) The RAF losses were akin to WW1 casualty rates, the author uses German civilian casualties to impress that we lost one expensive Bomber and its expensively trained crew to kill two Germans.

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on the night of 18 September 1938 Daladier gave Great Britain the decisive, though delayed, push which landed her in the Second World War.There is evidence that suggests that United Kingdom (and France, for that matter) could have prevented the onset of World War Two by halting Hitler’s expansionist drive in 1938. The author feels that the RAF would have been better employed staying at home to protect the mainland and used extensively in the battle of the Atlantic and later used more extensively on D Day plus. The British were unable to stop the invasion of Norway, despite inflicting significant losses upon the German surface fleet. Others reading the book will gather that the ‘Left’ will quickly latch on to these thoughts and carry them forward to the future. This time he was exposed yet again for his phony undercover "journalism" for trying to set up the Wash Post to take the bait on yet another of his phony "stings.

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All in all, I would, because after all, it is a great read – even though many arguments used by Peter Hitchens in that book are even more phoney than Britain’s victory. This book is important because too often WW2 is used to justify reckless, unnecessary intervention abroad. He has a weekly column in the Mail on Sunday and is the author of several books, including The Abolition of Britain; The Cameron Delusion; The Rage Against God and The War We Never Fought. That the events of Munich in 1939 involving Chamberlain and Hitler should have such permanent mythical significance in so many countries is remarkable. However, the outcome of World War Two created the end of the internal balance of power in Western Europe, which is now being threatened, to a certain extent, by the exiting of the United Kingdom from the European Union.I’m not aware of any historian – Polish, British or any other – who claims that in 1939, Poland was such “champion of freedom, justice and democracy”; furthermore, it would appear that the more conservative Polish historians are, the more critical they are about Poland in the 1930s (e. This is a book pleading a case, but like any contrarian argument when one puts the book down one wonders. Plucky Poland” was not a good ally, being at once impossible for Britain to save and with a government not worth saving. Still, we cannot overlook the inhumane barbarity that was inflicted on the German population during the war and as a result of the Potsdam Agreement. The treaties and the pacts are an education in themselves, some were made to lull the counter signatory into a state of relaxation only to attack them.

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Peter Hitchens’ latest book The Phoney Victory dares commit impiety, though impiety against patriotism, and the legends of the patriotic, does not seem that shocking in the new millennium. When Argentina attacked the Falklands, for good or bad, the impulse of many Americans was to stand with our brave ally. It was expected by the germans to pay for the war damage but why were the victorious British made to pay by the real victors USA?You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves. At the very least, the great wordsmith Winston Churchill created a United Kingdom that Americans found hard to hate.

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The British could no longer press for concessions over Danzig; equally they could no longer urge Poland to cooperate with Soviet Russia […] from this moment peace rested on the assumption that Hitler and Stalin would be more sensible and cautious than Chamberlain had been – that Hitler would continue to accept conditions at Danzig which most Englishmen had long regarded as intolerable, and that Stalin would be ready to cooperate on terms of manifest inequality. Here was decision at last, taken at the worst possible moment and on the least satisfactory ground, which must surely lead to the slaughter of tens of millions of people. The Führer is too often the ghost at the feast in British popular histories of the Second World War such as this one.After all, he is scathing about what he sees as the common view that the war, on the British side, was “utopian” and “idealist”, fought for ideological reasons. I mention this point because the likes of Sir Oswald Mosley complained at the time that the Jews were doing this very thing. On the contrary, the beginning and intensification of war made it easier for Germany to begin the policy of mass murder in secret as well as closing most escape routes. On 10 May 1940, Germany also launched attacks on France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, bringing the stalemate in western Europe to an end. Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications.