Naked except for a bath towel
Paul Addison
- Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence edited by Warren Kimball
Princeton, 674 pp, £125.00, October 1984, ISBN 0 691 05649 8
The Second World War is no longer what it used to be. The populists of the New Right, aided and abetted by amateur historians of the mole-hunting variety, have been distorting it into a morality tale of the Cold War. Scholars may talk as they please, constructing complex patterns of interpretation for a minority audience: the popular ground has been won by the Chapman Pincher school of history, with its attendant band of novelists, journalists and politicians. The message they bear is a simple one: that the war against Hitler was merely a side-show in the truly decisive struggle of the 20th century – the battle between Freedom and Communism.
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Vol. 7 No. 1 · 24 January 1985 » Paul Addison » Naked except for a bath towel (print version)
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