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The view of Beevor as a propagandist rather than a historian is based on the following points: Use of unreliable sources Use of anecdotal evidence Use of slanderous language Use of unreliable sources In his book "Battle of Berlin" Beevor gives the following claim: Berliners remember that, because all the windows had been blown in, you could hear the ...

This isn't something historians typically do; there's far too much speculation involved. The people who address questions like this are Alternate History writers. There are far too many titles in this genre to list here (try Uchronia), but I've noticed that WWII and the American Civil War seem to be favorite subjects to alternate. In my experience the ...

That he correctly portrayed Stalin (and his political enforcers) as someone who saw his own people as a resource to be used and wasted as he saw fit. He cared little for his own people and everything for his own image. In terms of human genocide he's right up there with the very worst of the 20th century alongside Mao and Hitler. It's no coincidence that ...

I was reminded what a "recognized historian" named Winston Churchill had to say about this matter, by this post (my own, on another site): http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/399221-tom-au/79016-of-winston-churchill-s-contribution-to-the-modern-postwar-world Key quote: "If we fail, the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known ...