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The good war?

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Journalist and author Peter Hitchens discusses his new book, The Phoney Victory, which challenges a number of popular beliefs about the Second World War Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The fact that we were fighting pure 24-carat evil, which we were, and the fact that we defeated it

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does not mean that we can simply turn and look the other way over any acts which we were, and the fact that we defeated it does not mean that we can simply turn and look the other way

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over any acts which we committed, which were wrong in themselves.

1:00.4

That was Peter Hitchens, sharing his opinions on the Second World War.

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Thank you. You're listening to the History Extra podcast from BBC History magazine.

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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast.

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I'm Rob Atar, the editor of BBC History magazine.

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Now, is there ever such a thing as a good war? Well, if there is, the Second World War seems like an

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