http://localhost:8080/dobbs Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:18:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/dobbs#comment-63123 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 20:18:15 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=14861#comment-63123 I agree that Dobbs’ Churchill novels are entertaining, accurate, and give a good feeling of who Churchill was as a man. I take exception with one disturbing aspect. In Winston’s War Dobbs used, of all people, Guy Burgess to prop up a less than resolved Churchill to deal with the Hitler threat. In the second novel in the tetralogy, Never Surrender, Dobbs used Ruth Mueller, a refugee from Germany, to stiffen Churchill against the Hitler menace. Sci-fi novelist James Hogan (The Proteus Operation, 1985) sent a team of Americans from 1975 back to 1939 similarly to prop up Churchill to fight Hitler. Everyone should know that Churchill needed no one to stiffen his resolve. The assertion that Churchill was needed someone else to motivate him is fallacious and downright offensive. Nevertheless, the novels are worth reading and give keen insights of the back-of-the-room politics that Churchill had to navigate.

]]> http://localhost:8080/dobbs#comment-63120 Fri, 06 Jan 2023 15:45:12 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=14861#comment-63120 Langvorts, Great stuff. Keep it coming and I will remain and interested and avid reader. Dieus Sveti Latviu. With fond memories of earlier years and all best wishes for future years. Russells.
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Paldies, Raselam, un ar laba vēlējumiem Jaunajam gadam un Latvijas neatkarības 51. gadam. -Langvorts

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