Pat Buchanan told me (as David Freeman caught in his review in *Finest Hour* 139), that his *Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War* was in part inspired by Harry Elmer Barnes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Elmer_Barnes>, not Francis Neilson, though there certainly is a familiarity of approach.
*Finest Hour *reviewed Neilson's *The Churchill Legend* (a whackin' long read) in issues 64, 59, 55, 53 and 51. Issue 51 also contains a review of his eloquent *Churchill as Fraud, Fakir and Warmonger.* Readable if not perfect pdfs are posted; you have only to Google "Finest Hour 51," and so on. I don't think Neilson was quite the charmer Pat is <https://richardlangworth.com/buchanan>... ...but I must say, compared to the current crop of Churchill haters <http://bit.ly/2inHpku> infesting the media, Pat and Francis seem tame. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
