What They Learned From the Last War

When the First World War broke out, Joseph Stalin was as far from the corridors of power as it was possible to be. Exiled in Siberia, this penniless middle-aged Marxist with a flair for bank heists and political assassinations was a failure and he knew it. Likewise, in Germany, another nondescript and undistinguished misanthrope was scraping a living together as an artist. Adolf Hitler greeted the eruption of war with ecstasy, exploiting the chaos to transfer his allegiance from Austria-Hungary to Germany and marching off to the front. In Italy, an enigmatic socialist editor also used the outbreak of war to switch identities. After initially fulminating against the fighting, Benito Mussolini quickly flipped, emerging as an impassioned cheerleader for Italian intervention. When Italy joined the fray, Mussolini was enlisted and witnessed first-hand the catastrophic conflict that he had helped embroil his country in.

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When Lindbergh’s Dark Visions Took Flight

Abraham Lincoln had a ready rejoinder for wartime critics who accused him of shredding the Constitution. To the contrary, said Lincoln; confronted with domestic rebellion he was willing to temporarily suspend part of the nation’s organic law in order to preserve the entirety, and the nation with it. "Often a limb must be amputated to save a life," he observed drolly, "but a life is never wisely given to save a limb." Lincoln’s pithy logic recurred to me while reading America First, H.W. Brands’s timely reassessment of the fierce debates preceding Pearl Harbor and the United States’ formal entry into World War II.

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WATCH: Andrew Roberts Talks Takedown of Tucker Carlson's Favorite Historian With Piers Morgan

British historian and Winston Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts joined Piers Morgan on Monday to discuss his takedown of Darryl Cooper, the little-known pseudo historian who, in an interview with Tucker Carlson, dubbed Churchill the "chief villain of World War II."

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No, Churchill Was Not the Villain

The historian Darryl Cooper has argued in an interview on the Tucker Carlson Show that Winston Churchill "was the chief villain of World War II," which would be both interesting and indeed shocking were his thesis not based on such staggering ignorance and disregard for historical fact that it is safe to disregard completely.

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WATCH: History According to Joe Biden (Vol. 2)

Joe Biden's lies are out of control. The president sparked an international incident last week by implying his uncle was eaten by "cannibals" in New Guinea during World War II.

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His Word Was His Bond

The first shocking thing about Nicholas Shakespeare’s biography of James Bond creator Ian Fleming is that it is over 700 pages long and includes almost another hundred of notes. The second shocking thing is that all of them are necessary.

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How Churchill Charmed America

"We shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be," Winston Churchill famously told Parliament after the successful evacuation from Dunkirk in the summer of 1940. Great Britain, he vowed, would hold out against the Nazi menace, "if necessary for years, if necessary alone," until "in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."

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Band of Bombers

Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman—the producers of HBO's Band of Brothers and its partner The Pacific—have joined forces with Apple TV+ to bring audiences Masters of the Air, a miniseries that follows the heroic actions of the 100th Bomb Group, a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber unit in the Eighth Air Force, during World War II.

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Biden Slams America's Conduct During WWII in Attempt To Criticize Israel

President Joe Biden slammed America's conduct during the Second World War in a conversation with Israel's war cabinet, arguing that the Allied bombings of Nazi Germany led to the "United Nations and all these rules" that preclude the use of such tactics today.

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The Real Italian Job

December 7, 1941, and June 6, 1944, are iconic dates in the history of World War II, or at least when history was taught in school. There is no date commemorating the war in Sicily and Italy in 1943 and 1944. In his book The Day of Battle, Rick Atkinson summarizes the view of historians of the Italian campaign with a quote from the American historian David M. Kennedy: "He decried a 'needlessly costly sideshow' … a 'grinding war of attrition whose costs were justified by no defensible military or political purpose.'" But nearly 30,000 Allied troops died there, and they must be remembered.

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