Churchill's War

This book, is not what I expected, I thought I was going to read a two volume bashing on the British leader during World War II. But instead, David Irving once more demonstrates his skills as a thorough researcher and an easy to follow writer. You get an intimate look into the life of Winston Churchill, you learn about his vices, his faults but also you grow to admire him, to admire his dexterity as a cunning, resourceful, manipulative and a brilliant man, you finish reading, the two volumes, understanding why he was the only man capable of being the Prime Minister and why he took the Allies to final victory. Along the pages you'll learn of a lot that things that happened 'behind the curtain', you'll know of military operations that you never heard to talk of before, as well as familiar topics as the Battle of Britain, the sinking of the Bismark, the Battle of the Atlantic, North Africa: Rommel vs Montgomery, the 'Dambusters', etc. Learn how the United Nations Organization was born, how the Manhattan project was put under way, or why at No.10 Downing Street they knew, beforehand, of every german military operation (and japanese too!); & you'll read about family gossips too. Let's hope that once David Irving is released from prison, he can conclude writing, and that he publishes the long awaited volume III. I'm sure that in several decades from now, and once this policy, politically motivated, of mental censorship be over, David Irving will go down in history as one of the best WWII historians.

And they were right. David Irving tells a compelling story demonstrating that far from the great statesman view of media and historians, Winston was a drunken compulsive gambler heavily indebted to jewish financial interests, and repaid them by turning Englan against its natural ally Germany, which could and should have destroyed Bolshevism. Recall the "iron curtain" speech? Churchill should know-it was his fault.

Mr. Irving devastates the fanciful mythos that is Churchill by going where other WW2 authors fear to tread- to those areas where the truth is revealed! This book is tremendously well researched and tremendously well organized. Irving's critics, as predicted, have stepped forward to discredit this work without offering a shred of evidence to disprove his conclusions. Perhaps they prefer the palatability of myths and legends to truth and accuracy...?

As can be seen by reviews posted by the anonymous critic who seems to live in a different city each time he or she posts, this book, like many of Irving's, makes the Chosen tribe nervous. World War Two was the fratricidal conflict which secured the power of our current media-boss rulers. Irving once again shows us how, through the eyes of a substantially less-than-perfect world leader.Ignore personal-attack propaganda and straw-men. Read Irving's book for a final look at WWII free of the propaganda our media bosses drench approved history with. I know Irving personally, and can assure you he is *not* a National Socialist.

Irvings original research and writing style combine to make Churchill's War a most enjoyable and thought-provoking read that I found to be intensely humerous and ironic at times. Irving practically chain-linked the words of Joe Kennedy, FDR, Herbert Hoover, Churchill, and a host of others to build paragraph after paragraph of free flowing, engrossing and controversial text. This was the first of Irving's work that I have read but certainly not my last. After reading some criticisms of this book I question whether the same book is being discussed and/or there is some animosity toward this author that is not related to the quality of his work.