This was formally before the start of WWII but part of the same story. Poles tend to forget to mention... [MORE]

vic

Sep 15, 2007 06:41

Poland did not invade Czechoslovakia. When Hitler invaded Czecholovakia Poland took back the small area of Teschen Czechoslovakia grabbed from... [MORE]

Stef

Oct 6, 2007 19:52

Vic fails to mention that Czechoslovakia invaded Poland in 1919 with 15,000 troops, some in non Czech uniforms. After Austro-Hungary... [MORE]

Stef

Oct 12, 2007 11:20

I borrow that heading from Stephen Jay Gould's gloss on the rise of mammals through the contingent annihilation of dinosaurs... [MORE]

Brian Johnson

Sep 12, 2007 08:01

I read his history of Europe, and there too he takes swipes at Zionism even though it had no connection...

Read his books

Sep 12, 2007 01:18

Emotions are easily manipulated and one would be naïve to think that such an emotionally charged issue as the Holocaust... [MORE]

Stef

Oct 6, 2007 23:35

Many people, including American military and political leaders at the time, focus most of their attention on the European war... [MORE]

Blain

Sep 12, 2007 00:19

1. Historian Norman Davies excludes origins, viz. "who started it," i.e. excludes from the explanation of later events the 1939... [MORE]

Don Phillipson

Sep 11, 2007 18:22

The involvement of the US and Great Britian against Germany was necessary for victory. If Great Britian had surrendered, all... [MORE]

charles

Sep 11, 2007 11:59

From the time my childhood in the USA, I've noticed a tendency to focus on Nazi war crimes to the... [MORE]

Aram

Sep 11, 2007 04:32

John's suggestion there was "no need to continue lend lease after 1944" is quaint. Unless the Soviet Union continued to... [MORE]

Norman Hanscombe

Sep 10, 2007 23:20

Hindsight is not always 20-20. The British and Americansconducted a very costly bombing campaign on German cities,costly both in men... [MORE]

Muggins

Sep 10, 2007 23:07

In "No Simple War," his treatment of the Holocaust is generally straightforward and unobjectionable. Yet he evidently still feels bruised... [MORE]

Omri Schwarz

Sep 10, 2007 22:10

He's a product of his times. Maybe he is an anti-Semite. or maybe he feels stung by the Zionist need... [MORE]

ds

Sep 12, 2007 12:42

I wish a less subjective reviewer had written this piece. Mr. Kirsch frets throughout that Davies' alleged lack of objectivity... [MORE]

jeepgypsy

Sep 10, 2007 15:05

Keep in mind, as even Churchill noted after the war, that the USSR did the bulk of the fighting against... [MORE]

We were fortunate

Sep 10, 2007 09:39

Dear RTK -- don't try to pull the age thing on Tom. It's like arguing that you only can understand... [MORE]

John

Sep 10, 2007 00:26

Granted John, it's not impossible to understand things you have no experience of, but that being said, comprehending the international... [MORE]

Avi

Sep 10, 2007 11:37

I have always been amused by people who buy our wartime propaganda that we were fighting for freedom and democracy... [MORE]

tom

Sep 5, 2007 03:43

My guess is that "tom" who so smugly wrote "snicker, snicker" is under the age of 70, and knows only... [MORE]

rtk

Sep 5, 2007 21:59