Search results for: “Buchanan”
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Churchill, Buchanan, and the Unnecessary Book Part 1
Military historian John Keegan once said that historians “are committed to controversy as a way of life.” ((John Keegan, The Battle for History: Re-Fighting World War II (New York: Vintage Books, 1996), 28.)) Patrick J. Buchanan, the man who referred to the 1992 Democratic National Convention as the “greatest single exhibition of cross-dressing in American political history,” is certainly…
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Buchanan’s Source on Churchill’s “Starvation Blockade”
This is a follow-up article to Buchanan is Wrong. Churchill Had No “Starvation Blockade” published last month. In that article, we showed how in Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, he incorrectly portrayed the blockade of Germany during World War I as something devised and executed entirely by Winston Churchill. Buchanan also incorrectly…
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Did Buchanan Plagiarize this Map of Germany After Versailles?
In Patrick J. Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, he uses a map to show how Germany was carved up after the Treaty of Versailles, which is similar to another map in Martin Gilbert’s Routledge Atlas of the First World War. Similarities Similar topic: “Germany After Versailles” and “Germany in Defeat” both showing how Germany…
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Did Buchanan Plagiarize this World War I Blockade Map?
Did Buchanan plagiarize a map from Martin Gilbert? In Patrick J. Buchanan’s Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, he uses a map to show the food riots in Germany during World War I of which he blames Winston Churchill as the cause. There is another map in Martin Gilbert’s Atlas of the First World War that is very similar. Similarities…
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Buchanan on Churchill and the Entente Cordiale of 1904
In Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, Patrick J. Buchanan identifies the Entente Cordiale of 1904 as one of Great Britain’s avoidable milestones on the road leading to World War I. The Entente Cordiale (translated as “cordial agreement”) was a series of agreements signed by Great Britain and France. While these agreements were seen as non-binding,…
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Buchanan is Wrong on Germany’s 1939 Strength
In Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, Patrick J. Buchanan argues that Hitler did not want to conquer France, Great Britain, or the world, because he did not have the troop strength for a “total war” in 1939. Buchanan aims to debunk this contention to prove his larger point which is World War II was an…
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Buchanan is Wrong. Churchill had No “Starvation Blockade”
While reading Patrick J. Buchanan’s new book Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”, I realized that a better title would have been Twisted Highlights from the World Wars that Make Churchill Look the Most Incompetent and Sadistic. While not all of Buchanan’s highlights are twisted, he tends to leave out just enough information to force…
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Publications
The following are Scott’s published writings in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, magazines, and graphic novels. If you need a copy of anything, happy to share. BooksJournal Essays, Chapters in Edited VolumesOther PublicationsPublished Books Reviews Books Cinema Medievalia: New Essays on the Reel Middle Ages Edited by Kevin J. Harty and Scott Manning. McFarland, forthcoming 2024.…
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Churchill’s Efforts to Feed Germany after the Great War
Reprinted by permission of Finest Hour, Number 145, Winter 2009-10, The Churchill Centre and Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms, London (www.winstonchurchill.org). Text copyright © Scott Manning 2010. With America’s entry into the First World War in 1917, the Allies finally had enough ships and manpower to implement a full naval blockade on Germany. The…
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Belgium’s Neutrality was More than a “Scrap of Paper”
On August 3, 1914, Great Britain sent an ultimatum to Germany not to invade Belgium. The next day, German troops were in the neutral country and Great Britain declared war. Great Britain’s reasoning was that Belgium was an independent, neutral state whose existence and sovereignty was guaranteed by Great Britain, France, Russia, Austria, and Germany.…
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“Hitler and His Choice”, Churchill’s Misquoted Words
Critics of Winston Churchill have been quick to quote lines from an article entitled “The Truth About Hitler”. ((Available in Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill Volume V Companion Part 3 Documents: The Coming of War, 1936-1939 (London: Heinemann, 1982), 903-904.)) It was originally written in November of 1935 ((Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill: Vol. 5, Prophet of Truth, 1922-1939…
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“Friendship with Germany” by Winston Churchill (Sep 17, 1937)
The following is one of many articles written by Winston Churchill for the Evening Standard. This is an often quoted article used by critics of Churchill to give the impression that at one point he held uncharacteristic admiration for Hitler. These critics will quote portions from the second-to-last paragraph with no other context in order to…