Category: World Wars
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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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Battle of the Bulge at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA
On January 27 of this year, my dad and I attended the Battle of the Bulge Reenactment at For Indiantown Gap, PA put on by the The World War II Federation. The reenacting had been taking place all week and we visited on the second to last day. The toughest part was finding the place,…
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World War I: Troop Statistics
The following is a breakdown of the number of troops that fought, died, and were wounded in World War I, as recorded in Michael Clodfelter’s Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Reference to Casualty and other Figures. The number of civilians killed have been counted as well. This article is only a quick analysis of…
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General Patton’s Prayer
Many know the story of General Patton’s prayer for better weather in order to more efficiently kill the Germans in the winter of 1944. Few know of his Christmas Greeting that was issued along with the prayer, which he describes in War as I Knew It. Contrary to popular belief, the prayer was not ordered to…
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Churchill’s Sinking of the French Fleet (July 3, 1940)
On June 13, 1940, Winston Churchill took one of several trips to France during Hitler’s Blitzkrieg. After convincing the French not to sign a separate armistice with Germany just two months prior, Churchill was now being begged to release them from the obligation. When a country loses its will to fight, there’s not much you…
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Movie Review: Flyboys
Against all odds, I went to see Flyboys. The critics hated it, my wife refused to go, and all of my friends had better things to do. That is, all of my friends except poor Derek. He was as dumb as me and had nothing to do on a Sunday night. We both left our…
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General Patton’s Principles
General Patton’s Principles was a gift from my grandfather almost six years ago. He’s a got room in his house in North Texas full of old, dusty books. Somehow, he found out how big of a Patton fan I am and General Patton’s Principles made it into my hands. This book has stayed by my…
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How Hitler Could Have Won World War II
Author: Bevin Alexander See it on Amazon Most Americans and British would like to think that Hitler was defeated by the tenacity and determination of the United States and the British Empire. Some may even concede that the Russians had something to do with it as well. But the fact of the matter is no…