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Originally Posted by MTI
"Host Niall Ferguson calls World War II a "tainted victory" due to a devil's pact with Stalin and the Allies' use of air power to deliberately incinerate hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians.
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Ferguson is an interesting author. I've read a couple of his books after seeing him interviewed on C-Span. He uses "counterfactual" concepts a lot in his teaching to the annoyance of more staid historians.
He's not the only one recently to point out the dichotomy between the intentions of the western allies - going to war to save Poland, and the reality of allying with Stalin and thus selling Poland down the Volga. Normal Davies "No Simple victory" deals with this topic as well.
- Peter.
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