http://localhost:8080/richard-burton Senior Fellow, Hillsdale College Churchill Project, Writer and Historian Sun, 13 Mar 2022 17:10:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 http://localhost:8080/richard-burton#comment-54411 Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:52:38 +0000 https://richardlangworth.com/?p=10209#comment-54411 Burton was correct. It was Churchill, not Hitler, who began the deliberate area bombing of civilian during World War II: [A URL is cited which is omitted; a URL is not an opinion].
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The article you cite (2013) is exercised over bombing Germany in 1943. The first bombing of civilian populations was by the Luftwaffe over Rotterdam in 1940. The article naively states: “Up until Churchill’s appointment as prime minister [May 1940], both Germany and Britain had stuck to a pledge not to attack targets in each other’s cities where civilians were at risk.” There is no record of such a pledge and in any case the London Blitz didn’t start until September. Suggest you balance your reading of revisionist anti-bombers with more balanced analysts such Paul Addison, Geoffrey Best or Andrew Roberts. None of these historians believe Churchill was always right; but none think the Allies could have won the war with milk and rosewater. —RML

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