Churchill Didn't Say That

January 24, 2011

The King's Speech is riddled with gross falsifications of history.
By Christopher Hitchens

"The King's Speech is an extremely well-made film with a seductive human interest plot, very prettily calculated to appeal to the smarter filmgoer and the latent Anglophile. But it perpetrates a gross falsification of history."
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1 comments:

Tom Goodfellow said...

"(Churchill) once described himself as the lone voice warning the British people against the twin menaces of Hitler and Gandhi!"

I hadn't heard this before - does anyone have a source reference?

 
 
 

Christopher reads from Hitch-22: A Memoir