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
- 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
Here is Buchanan’s map from 2008, rebranded as “The Success of Churchill’s Starvation blockade.”
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.