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Volume Sixteen ∙ Number Six ∙ November/December 1997

Between 1980 and 2002, The Journal of Historical Review was published by the Institute for Historical Review. It used to be the publishing flagship of the revisionist community, but it ceased to exist in 2002 for a number of reasons, mismanagement and lack of dedication being some of them. CODOH mirrors the old papers that were published in that journal.

Scapegoats: A Defense of Kimmel and Short at Pearl Harbor, by Edward L. Beach. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1995. Hardcover. 225 pages. Eleven photographs. Bibliographical references essay. Index. John Weir is a computer programer/analyst who lives with his wife and three children in a suburb of Kansas City. Born in …

Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?, by Viktor Suvorov (Vladimir Rezun). London: Hamish Hamilton, 1990. Hardcover. Maps. Photos. Source references. Index. Joseph Bishop studied history and German at a South African university. Currently employed in a professional field, he resides in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and three …

Donald Neff is author of several books on US-Middle East relations, including the 1995 study, Fallen Pillars: Us. Policy Toward Palestine and Israel Since 1945, and his 1988 Warriors trilogy. This article is reprinted from the November-December 1996 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (PO. Box 53062, …

Through his personal Internet web site, Journal associate editor Greg Raven makes available an impressive selection of material from the Institute for Historical Review, including dozens of IHR Journal articles and reviews. An independent service that impartially reviews and rates web sites has given the site a positive rating. In …

Rachelle Marshall is a free-lance editor living in Stanford, California. A member of the International Jewish Peace Union, she writes frequently on the Middle East. This article is reprinted from the July-August 1995 issue of The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (P.O. Box 53062, Washington, DC 20009). Every country …

Serge Thion, born in 1942, has devoted some 30 years to study, analysis and writing on social, economic and political issues, particularly in agrarian societies. He received a doctorate in sociology from the Paris Sorbonne in 1967. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, half of them dealing with …

Gerald Fleming is an internationally prominent Holocaust historian who teaches history at the University of Surrey in England. In his widely-discussed 1984 book, Hitler and the Final Solution, he attempted to refute British historian David Irving’s provocative contention that no documentary evidence exists to show that Hitler ordered the extermination …

James J. Martin graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1942 and received his M.A. (1945) and Ph.D. (1949) degrees in history from the University of Michigan. His teaching career has spanned 25 years and involved residence at educational institutions from coast to coast. Dr. Martin's books have included …

John Mueller is a professor of political science at the University of Rochester, and the author of Retreat From Doomsday (Basic Books, 1989). This essay, reprinted from the Los Angeles Times, Dec. 6, 1991, is adapted from an article in International Security journal. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor half …

Jaroslaw Zadencki holds a degree in philosophy from the University of Krakow. He has been a contributor to several Polish periodicals. This essay, a translation and adaptation from the original Polish, first appeared in issue No. 1(30), 1997, of the journal Stanczyk, ul. St. Pietaka 9, 51-140 Wroclaw, Poland. One …

Joachim Hoffmann, Dr. phil., served as a historian with the Military History Research Center of the German armed forces, 1960-1995, and is author of the recently published study, Stalins Vernichtungskrieg. This item appeared as a reader's letter in the September 1997 issue of the Swiss magazine Schweizer Soldat. For some …