Bill: Chris Sterling rightly recommends BURYING CEASAR, a balanced work taking advantage of newly released material. Til Kinzel reviewed this book in FINEST HOUR 115 and it is posted on our website: http://www.winstonchurchill.org/component/content/article/18-book-reviews/190-burying-caesar
The Chamberlain biographies by Keith Feiling and Ian MacLeod are sympathetic to NC. MacLeod argued that NC was right not to fight over Czechoslovakia in 1938, countering the views of the Churchillians. Martin Gilbert exercises more criticism. In FINEST HOUR 144, Ted Hutchinson reviewed his first book, THE APPEASERS, concluding that it was inevitably dated, and that Sir Martin himself came to alter some of his views: not only in Volume 5 of WINSTON S. CHURCHILL (1976) but in his subsequent CHURCHILL: A LIFE (1991). David Dilks's "The Twilight War and the Fall of France: Chamberlalin and Churchill in 1940" (Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, vol. 28, 1978; reprinted in D.N. Dilks, ed., RETREAT FROM POWER, vol. 2, Macmillan, 1981) will shortly be posted on FINEST HOUR ONLINE. Professor Dilks writes of this piece: “It is only fair to point out that the readers might very well complain that they're being served some pretty stale material.” But, though more than thirty years old, his reflective and balanced account seems remarkably fresh and interesting. Any reader who would like a copy by email please contact me offline. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat?hl=en.
