Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality and policies of Hitler and the causes and responsibility for the Second World War has ever been assembled, even in war time.

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

War is the most striking instance of the failure of intelligence to master the problem of human relationships.

In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results.