To paraphrase Jesus N. C. Mailer: Let the naked bury the dead.
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > This morning as I grew increasingly weary of the wall-to-wall coverage > of the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing, including on > Al-Jazeera, I longed for an alternative take. Just at that moment, I > remembered that I had James Heartfield’s “Unpatriotic History of the > Second World War” on the bookshelf behind me. A while back I had read up > through page 345 with a review in mind but got sidetracked as happens so > often with an intellectual dilettante like myself. I was sure that James > had a good take on things. As you can see below, a section from the > chapter “The Second Invasion of Europe”, I was not to be disappointed. > James’s book is not the only “revisionist” history of the war (I have > also read versions written by Ernest Mandel, Mickey Z. as well as the > chapter in Zinn numerous times) but it is certainly the best. > > full: > > http://louisproyect.org/2014/06/06/enough-already-with-the-fucking-normandy-landing/ > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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