Category: Book Reviews

DID I REALLY WRITE THAT?

MICHAEL WALSH BOOK EDITING: When the subject of his memoirs came up, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan wryly remarked: ‘I hear it’s a terrific book. One of these days I am going to read it myself.’ Of course, the statesman hadn’t written his memoirs but he was hardly alone […]

The Intellectual Martyrs of World War II Allied Savagery

We are conditioned by the propagandists of the victor nations to applaud Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt, and many military figures and writers.  Yet, had things turned out differently, Britain’s half-American unelected wartime leader would be little more than a Lord Kitchener-like smudge in a schoolchild’s […]

THE PRIME MINISTER’S SILK KNICKERS 

The Winston Churchill you were never told about:  During a BBC Television’s University Challenge session, the quiz programme’s host, Jeremy Paxman, asked, ‘Which statesman during the 1920s found he was in debt because he liked to buy women’s pink silk pantaloons.’ The normally erudite students were stumped for […]

The Astonishing Life of a Far-Right Revolutionary

Removed from Amazon’s bookshelves under pressure from the Jewish lobby, Mike Walsh’s beautifully illustrated Life in the Reich was the most popular of the writer-historian’s scores of published books. He simultaneously has had over 1,000 media columns and stories published for British, Spanish and American media publications earning […]