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FadeTheButcher
09-22-2004, 12:16 AM
Have you ever read it, cerberus?
cerberus
09-22-2004, 05:57 PM
Fade , no not as yet.
WSC , have seen one or two books on him but have never beeen motivated to buy any as yet.
Who is publisher , price details etc ?
David Irving has one out at present again have not seen it.
friedrich braun
09-22-2004, 06:12 PM
The best bio of Churchill that I've ever read:
Churchill: The End of Glory : A Political Biography
by John Charmley (Author)
FadeTheButcher
09-26-2004, 03:39 AM
Fade , no not as yet.
You are often critical of Irving. Why not read his work for yourself before passing judgment upon the man?
WSC , have seen one or two books on him but have never beeen motivated to buy any as yet.
I have Martin Gilbert's biography of Churchill and Conrad Black's biography of Roosevelt. I also have Ian Kershaw's, Joachim Fest's, and John Toland's biographies of Hitler.
Who is publisher , price details etc ?
Veritas Publishing Company. I am not sure about the price. I picked up this volume in my university library.
David Irving has one out at present again have not seen it.
He is working on another volume of his bio of Churchill at the moment, I believe.
FadeTheButcher
09-26-2004, 03:46 AM
Here are some excerpts from Churchill's War:
"This financial quandary might seem of only vestigal importance, but in the following chapters comes the suggestion that he [Fade: Churchill] proceeded to sell his soul to a syndicate of politicians and financiers called The Focus, a group which continued to fete and finance him until the outbreak of the war.
The materials on this episode are perhaps typical of the sources which I have developed for his biography.
One was the diary of a member of The Focus made available to me by Dr. Howard Gottlieb, director of the Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University. This shows that at the time of Munich the Czechs were paying Focus members 2,000 per annum. The papers of the former Czech Minister in Prais, Stefan Osusky, at the Hoover Library, Czech documents now in Prague F.O. archives and captured Nazi intercepts of Bene's secret telephone conversations with Osusky and Jan Masaryk confirm that senior British politicians were being paid by the Czechs in return for the promise to topple Neville Chamberlain's government."
David Irving, Churchill's War: The Struggle For Power (Decatur: Historical Review Press, 1987), p.xvi
I read it.. An incredible and groundbreaking biography. Strongly recommended.
Fade, as addendum:
It can be d/l'd from his site, no charge.
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