Saturday, March 25, 2017

Book review - "The History of the English Speaking Peoples" by Andrew Roberts

Really should have been titled History of why critics of the English speaking peoples are wrong. There's no reason why some historian shouldn't have taken on Churchill's mantle and Roberts is a good writer and entertaining historian - but while his style remains as readable as ever and he has a good eye for an anecdote, it's constant neo-con agenda gets wearying.

So the concentration camps in the Boer War were for the good of the Boers, Britain had to fight World War I for the sake of honour, the massacre of Amristar was justified, why can't the aborigines just get over what happened, the Vietnam War was justified and only lost due to defeatism of the West (a breathtaking lack of handling for military strategy), Platoon and Full Metal Jacket only depicted the American army negatively because of Hollywood's liberal bias (ignoring the fact Oliver Stone was a veteran), mis spelling Kevin Costner's name, the Attlee government spent too much on welfare and not enough on roads. It got boring.

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