Robert J. Hutchinson

This book does not do what it says on the tin. A third of the book is concerned with previous attempts on Hitler's life including a large section on Valkyrie. It spends some time summing up the basics of WWII and Hitler's rise to power, something it ironically criticises the book Grey Wolf for doing - that's the book this book is primarily written as a response/rebuttal to. While the case for Hitler's escape might have a ton of holes this book doesn't do a great job of actively attacking it in the third of the content that's actually about that topic. It restates the official narrative, goes over how the facts changed through the years mostly due to Soviet mind games, and then the various attempts to spin a flight to Argentina over the years.
You can do better just reading some news articles and wikipedia.… (plus d'informations)

The book did not seem very good and the narrator sounded like a sports announcer, emphasizing arbitrary words, with vigor. I can't think of anything I learned and I frequently thought to myself, "That is a misrepresentation of what I know to be correct." There seemed to be no base at all beneath the polemical bits. I enjoyed the guide to English and American Literature in this series a whole lot more. There was much more there there. But I intend to read it anyway, to see if it's really as bad as I thought it was.… (plus d'informations)

Robert J. Hutchinson's “The Dawn of Christianity” (2017) would make good reading anytime, but it seems especially helpful during Holy Week as Christians everywhere ponder the meaning of it all. How did it happen? Why did it happen? And for that matter, what exactly did happen?

The author covers the biblical account from the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem for the final time to the ministry of the Apostle Paul, but he also goes behind the Bible to accounts from other sources from that period of history and the latest archaeological findings. He presents everything in such a way that one does not need to be a doctor of divinity to understand it. Numerous photos, maps and charts help make the book even more reader-friendly.

Where was the upper room? Who was Pilate? What was the reason for crucifixion? What happened on that first Easter morning? How did Saul of Taursus, one of one Christianity's most violent opponents, become one of its greatest defenders? Hutchinson tackles such questions with authority, clarity and apparent ease. He packs an amazing amount of information into less than 300 pages.

Although Hutchinson does side with the traditional Christian interpretation of these events — Jesus really did die and Jesus really did rise again — he also gives a hearing to opposing views. The evidence, he argues, supports tradition.… (plus d'informations)

I was initially skeptical at first, not so much about the author's thesis (Hitler really is dead, and died in 1945), but by the fact that he literally spends one half of the book talking about Hitler's rise to power, and a great deal on the failed July 20, 1944 coup. I do realize, having finished the book, the ultimate logic as to how it explains Hitler's decisions and mind-set in the last few weeks of his life. The second half of the book is pretty good, in that it uses some of the latest information available (information that Hugh Trevor-Roper didn't have) to show that Hitler really did kill himself in 1945, and the Russians had the bodies for decades afterward -- and still have parts of him to this day. The most refreshing thing about the book is the debunking of the various conspiracy theories about Hitler being alive after the war. Curiously, the author doesn't choose to focus on one significant point -- the wretched state of Hitler's health in the final weeks of the war, which would have made travel very difficult.… (plus d'informations)