Dennis The B
US Veteran
I don't want to step on BETTIS1's fine thread, so I'll start another, which takes a completely different perspective on the era from 1900-1964.
I just finished reading three other histories of the era, and my perspective of the world from about 1900, to about 1964, has been changed and to an extent, jaded.
The first book I read this year was "The New Dealers War: FDR And The War Within World War II". It's amazing that we managed any victories at all, especially in the period right after Pearl Harbor. It details the in-fighting within the FDR administration, as well as the fight waged with private industry. FDR attempted, poorly, to "New Dealize" the war, thinking the U.S. government could manage the war; even going so far as to try and forcefully relocate workers to other cities in the name of the war effort.
The second is a literal tome. It's "Freedom Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath." While President Hoover is remembered for being President at the start of the Great Depression, he actually had a tremendous career as a humanitarian. The manuscript was finished just prior to his death in 1964. He demonstrates with detailed research and discussions with people "who were there", how we could have avoided a war with Japan and Germany. It also shows how Roosevelt's actions at Tehran and Yalta, literally set the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for more than forty-five years past the end of the war.
The third was written by Patrick J. Buchanan. Titled "Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World". It details the cassis belli for World War I, and how the "Great War" lead directly to World War II.
In all three books, especially the first two, it's factually demonstrated that the Roosevelt Administration was thoroughly infiltrated by Communists who reported almost directly to Moscow. Roosevelt was a lightweight in world affairs, and his naivety was exceeded only by his ego. He actually believed he could outmaneuver Stalin, ignoring facts to the contrary.
Far from being a hero, Churchill is shown more as a political opportunist. He switched from Tory, to Labourite, to Tory, when it suited his amibitions. When Neville Chamberlain tried appeasement, Churchill subverted him. Great Britain had no army powerful enough to face off against Germany (the Brits only had one deployable division in 1939), yet Churchill was the lead hawk.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin sold any number of people into slavery with their deals at Tehran and Yalta. They made side deals with Mao Tze Tung, to sell out the Nationalists, and allow the USSR to use American Lend-Lease equipment to overthrow them in 1948.
Churchill and the British actually expanded their empire after the war, when the world wide trend was against empiricism, and small democracies should have been nurtured.
Even reading one of these books will forever change your opinion of the leaders of World War II.
I just finished reading three other histories of the era, and my perspective of the world from about 1900, to about 1964, has been changed and to an extent, jaded.
The first book I read this year was "The New Dealers War: FDR And The War Within World War II". It's amazing that we managed any victories at all, especially in the period right after Pearl Harbor. It details the in-fighting within the FDR administration, as well as the fight waged with private industry. FDR attempted, poorly, to "New Dealize" the war, thinking the U.S. government could manage the war; even going so far as to try and forcefully relocate workers to other cities in the name of the war effort.
The second is a literal tome. It's "Freedom Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its Aftermath." While President Hoover is remembered for being President at the start of the Great Depression, he actually had a tremendous career as a humanitarian. The manuscript was finished just prior to his death in 1964. He demonstrates with detailed research and discussions with people "who were there", how we could have avoided a war with Japan and Germany. It also shows how Roosevelt's actions at Tehran and Yalta, literally set the stage for the Cold War, which lasted for more than forty-five years past the end of the war.
The third was written by Patrick J. Buchanan. Titled "Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World". It details the cassis belli for World War I, and how the "Great War" lead directly to World War II.
In all three books, especially the first two, it's factually demonstrated that the Roosevelt Administration was thoroughly infiltrated by Communists who reported almost directly to Moscow. Roosevelt was a lightweight in world affairs, and his naivety was exceeded only by his ego. He actually believed he could outmaneuver Stalin, ignoring facts to the contrary.
Far from being a hero, Churchill is shown more as a political opportunist. He switched from Tory, to Labourite, to Tory, when it suited his amibitions. When Neville Chamberlain tried appeasement, Churchill subverted him. Great Britain had no army powerful enough to face off against Germany (the Brits only had one deployable division in 1939), yet Churchill was the lead hawk.
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin sold any number of people into slavery with their deals at Tehran and Yalta. They made side deals with Mao Tze Tung, to sell out the Nationalists, and allow the USSR to use American Lend-Lease equipment to overthrow them in 1948.
Churchill and the British actually expanded their empire after the war, when the world wide trend was against empiricism, and small democracies should have been nurtured.
Even reading one of these books will forever change your opinion of the leaders of World War II.
