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Entry: The American Conservative, John Lukacs, and The Unnecessary Review Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_american_conservative_john_lukacs_and_the_unnecessary_review#27683 Post contents: Marcus: I totally agree with your commentary, which I find very much on target. Just a note: Lukacs was mad with Irving for years, including many years when Irving's reputation was considerably higher (after all he was praised by Sir John Keegan and Prof. Gordon Craig as the "most knowledgeable historian" of World War II), before Irving made comments that got him into hot water. Curiously, Lukacs, in his THE HITLER OF HISTORY, where he cites Irving to criticize him, does so in various instances incorrectly and erroneously. I actually looked up most of his references and was stunned to find how shoddy were his citations. His animus apparently goes back quite a ways, to when Irving's HITLER'S WAR was published, and a volume he wrote was virtually ignored. On Churchill he refuses any criticism, including from respected historians like Maurice Cowling, John Charmley, and Louis Kilzer. Lukacs, for all his merits, was definitely NOT the author to whom Buchanan's book should have been given. I just renewed by sub to TAC, and in fact, was a charter subscriber. But now I must wonder.... On Churchill, Pat Buchanan is right, and Lukacs dead wrong. Sent at: 2008 11 20