It appears the Tariq Ali’s book, Churchill: His Times, His Crimes (Verso, 2022), is doing us the same invaluable public service that Christopher Hitchens, Greg Grandin, and William Shawcross (and some others) earlier performed with their works on Kissinger.* Of course the Right is apoplectic when its idealized and mythic portraits are brought back to earth, when people learn these men were morally and legally responsible for barbaric, inhumane and cruel policies, decisions and actions during times of both war and putative peace, as millions needlessly suffered and died under their imperious leadership, as they became political exemplars of some of the worst character vices of heart and mind.
* Please see:
- Bass, Gary J. The Blood Telegram: India’s Secret War in East Pakistan (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013).
- Grandin, Greg. Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman (Metropolitan Books, 2015).
- Hitchens, Christopher. The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Twelve Edition, 2012).
- Shawcross, William. Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia (Cooper Square Press, revised ed., 1987).
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