This is what David Anderson wrote when I challenged Pat Buchanan's The Unnecessary War as a shoddy rip-off of AJP Taylor's The Origins of World War Two : His book is fine piece of scholarship in that it is meticulously sourced. The problem is that just because somebody cites a source, doesn't mean that the source says what they imply it does. If it is difficult to get people to click through on links on the internet, just think about how difficult it is to get people to go look up specialized books in the library. Pat Buchanan is a master of misattributing quotations, as evidenced with this statement about Winson Churchill in a recent public debate [which follows the argument of his book]: The day he became Prime Minister in 1940, as the German army was breaking through in the Ardennes, Churchill directed his bombers not against Rommel’s Panzers, but Rhineland cities, in what your historian Paul Johnson calls "a critical stage in the moral declension of humanity in...