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Entry: The "Good War" and the Terrible Peace Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_good_war_and_the_terrible_peace#29606 Post contents: Hanson's assertions are often difficult for anyone with a real knowledge of history to take very seriously, but that apparently doesn't stop quite people from doing just that. If you want to see a particularly crude example of double standards applied to those historical figures who fit into ones ideological lens and those who don't, read Hanson's work. Being such a vulgarization of that tendency illustrates it nicely for people who aren't stupid but aren't experts in the field. Otherwise don't bother reading him, as his work often verges on what Buchanan calls "comic-book history" you get the impression that he'd be better off writing for Hollywood. In his book, Buchanan never shows Hitler as anything but the evil and stupid disgrace to his country he was. What Buchanan wants to move away from is the Hitler of comic book history and show an adventurer and murderous revolutionary with no respect for the balance of power, which does not absolve him of wrecking our civilization but rather holds British leaders to higher scrutiny for helping unleash him and not handling him properly. For these reasons and others people with nostalgia for the comic book Hitler will hate this book. It should be remembered that there was no uniform opinion of the Nazis and German people in America leading up to, during, and following our involvement in the Second World War, but it was Japan that most Americans were far more concerned with. Hollywood and academia then rewrote history to make people think otherwise, or that this was wrong. Sent at: 2009 01 08