Ep 052 "CG Excursion: Churchill: Imperial Bombast and the Death of the West"
The monsters celebrated among us...
This is an episode to examine what Churchill really did for the West after witnessing the emotional & ahistorical outbursts by the usual suspects after Darryl Cooper from the Martyrmade Podcast appeared on Tucker Carlson on 2 SEP 2024.
I am simply addressing the claims of Churchill as "the chief villain" which I think was hyperbolic (Cooper accedes to this) because I think Churchill was one of many villains during WWII. I am a reluctant Anglophile and I think historical revisionism is a healthy reaction to triumphalist historiography in the West that has made questioning accepted narratives a scholar crime.
Listen to the interview yourself before arriving at any conclusions.
References:
William Manchester The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965
Andrew Roberts Churchill: Walking with Destiny
David Reynolds In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
John Charmley Churchill: The End of Glory : A Political Biography
John Charmley Churchill's Grand Alliance: The Anglo-American Special Relationship 1940-57
Gordan Corrigan BLOOD, SWEAT AND ARROGANCE: The Myth's of Churchill's War
Madhusree Mukerjee Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II
Thomas Ricks Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom
Patrick J. Buchanan Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Nicolai Tolstoy Victims of Yalta: The Secret Betrayal of the Allies: 1944-1947
Robert A. Pape Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War
Ralph Raico on Rethinking Churchill
Email at cgpodcast@pm.me
Hi Bill! I very much enjoy hearing your commentaries and views, my thoughts and observations usually run in parallel to yours. I just want to bring to your attention another author whose work you might find enlightening in the event that you aren’t aware of him. The British author and historian David Irving has written two volumes about Churchill. “Churchill’s War” Vol 1 and Vol 2.