Did Buchanan Plagiarize this World War I Blockade Map? Scott Manning July 2, 2008

Did Buchanan plagiarize a map from Martin Gilbert? You be the judge.

In Patrick J. Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War", he uses a map (Buchanan, p. 78) to show the food riots in Germany during World War I of which he incorrectly blames Winston Churchill as the cause. There is another map (Gilbert, p. 77) in a book by Martin Gilbert that appears very similar.

Similarities

• Similar topic: "Starvation Blockade" and "Food Riots"
  
  
• Exact same region focus
  
  
• Same keys on the lower right-hand side: Number of deaths and dots representing food riots
  

Buchanan's map is first. Gilbert's map is second.

References

Buchanan, Patrick J. Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War". New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2008.

Gilbert, Martin. The Routledge Atlas of the First World War, 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002.

More on the "Unnecessary War"

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