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 was carved up after World War I.
- Same region focus.
- Same key in the mid-left region to show “Principal German Losses”. Wording and terminology is the same.
- Same key on the lower right-hand side. Buchanan even uses the same coloring method. Solid color for territory lost, stripes for territory retained, and territory retained with no fortifications.
- The same cities and regions all have sub-text. In some cases, it’s the exact same text.
Here is Buchanan’s map from 2008, rebranded as “Germany After Versailles.”
Here is Martin Gilbert’s map from his Atlas of the First World War, which has been in print since 1970.
No attribution is given to Gilbert in Buchanan’s work.
Something that should be considered when looking at these two maps is the Introduction and Preface to Martin Gilbert’s book.
The Introduction was written by Field-Marshal Montgomery when the book was first published in 1970.
The idea of teaching history by a series of maps was new to me until Martin Gilbert’s historical atlas of British history had come my way. I was at once intensely interested and later studied those of other countries and nations which he published. Such historical facts cannot fail to be of real value to students in schools and universities; they would look through a window, as it were, at the subject before getting down to a details study-which is, of course, essential. ((Martin Gilbert, The Routledge Atlas of the First World War, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2002), vi.))
The Preface is written by Martin Gilbert in which he states the following.
The principal books upon which I have drawn for both facts and ideas are listed in the bibliography at the end of the volume. ((Gilbert, The Routledge Atlas of the First World War, vii.))