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Entry: The Truth About the "Good War" Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_truth_about_the_good_war#25814 Post contents: The “Good War” is more a civic religion than a historical event but the cognitive dissonance that these works provoke will have a salutary effect at least among the small minority interested in the truth. The feeble-minded, sentimental, cynical will still prostrate them selves before the idols and the priests will remain in their sinecures. A. J. P. Taylor’s The Origins of the Second World War (1961) was the first academic diplomatic historical revision of the war myth. Taylor’s study is the more compelling for his ardent pro-Churchill interventionism at the outbreak of the war. He considers the war a mistake and exonerates Hitler of the charge that he planned aggressive war. Sent at: 2008 07 06