”WhatifAlthist” | World History, Philosophy, Culture

Was Churchill a Villain?

64 min • 21 april 2025

World events keep derailing my civilization series! As a professional historian, I felt compelled to address the recent Rogan/Cooper podcast pushing the revisionist claim that Churchill was the villain of WWII who caused millions of deaths by refusing Hitler's peace offer. Let's examine what the historical evidence actually shows about this controversial take.


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Bibliography:

Liddle Hart's the Second World War 2

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer

World War 2 by Childers

My Early Life by Winston Churchill

A History of the English Speaking Peoples after 1900 by Andrew Roberts

A Military History of the Western World by JFC Fuller

The Dictators by Richard Overy

The Rule of Empires by Parsons

Tragedy and Hope by Carroll Quiggley

War in Human Civilization by Azar Gat

The World at War by Forster

If the Allies had Fallen by Showalter

History's Greatest Wars by Cummins

A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia by David Christian

Honor by Bowman

Cynical Theories by James Lindsay

Fire in the Minds of Men by Billington

Atrocities by Matthew White

The First World War 1 by John Keegan

The Second World War by John Keegan

The History of the English Speakings Peoples by Winston Churchill

Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer

15 Battles of History by Creasy




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