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buglord posted:Books/media on Churchill you’d recommend? Stuff I find online is either valiantly defending him or attacking him because the person has an axe to grind. Looks like he was a legitimately awful dude but it’s hard to find reputable looking information on him. Trying to divide historical figures into “awful” and “ok” is a difficult and usually pointless exercise. IMO, Churchill was legitimately the best possible wartime leader for the UK, from the available choices. This was especially true in the early going, because he had unimpeachable Conservative credentials and yet hated the Nazis with a white-hot fury, at a time when many Tories were like, “Well yes Hitler is a crude little man, but we can’t have *Communism* now can we? Let’s let him do his thing and scold him severely when he goes too far.” The UK public wisely booted him from power after the war and began building their welfare state, before he could proto-Thatcher the place up too much. The Guardian has an interesting list of books about him: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/11/top10s.churchill
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Perhaps the Soviets would have defeated Germany more easily if they hadn’t had a ruthless paranoiac in charge?
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