Paradoxically, I have heard Ralph Cosham narrate some Sherlock Holmes stories and this time the British Upper Class style actually added to the story and gave it more authenticity but not appropriate here! In my opinion this quirk of dialect should have been avoided or edited out. On the other hand there were ocassions where Ralph Cosham inserted an "aaa" sound before some words in a British Upper Class style that caused confusion under some circumstances where it sounded like singular "a" and I expected a noun to follow. There have been many comments about Ralph Cosham's narration being "dull" but I would counter this by saying that the tone is sobering and that this is appropriate - the very last thing I would want to hear would be a narration of Hitler's life story presented with razzmatazz and glamour in the name of entertainment.
Any film would have to be appropriately aligned to highlight the ultimate human cost of his actions, I think "Downfall" did an excellent job of covering the final weeks and I wouldn't attempt to supersede this work. Making a new film about the life of Hitler would be unwise in my opinion. If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be? When Churchill became PM, I had much admiration for his unwillingness to negotiate with the evil Axis regimes, even when it seemed that Britain would be next on the invasion list.ĭifficult to enjoy any scene from such a tragic and calamitous subject, I guess the point at which the World finally decides to stand up to Hitler comes as a relief to the reader but, as everyone now appreciates, this stand was made far too late. Both Anthony Eden and Winston Churchill admirably sounded early warnings as to Hitler's intentions but Eden appears to have preferred to resign than to continue his efforts to wake up the Western Powers, whilst Churchill was in the political wilderness until War began.
Those involved in the 20th July Plot, brave men but tragically unsuccessful and probably too late to act. What did you like most about Adolf Hitler?Īccounts were presented as quotations from witnesses, very few judgements were made on the evidence but the potential bias in each of the sources was highlighted and I felt implicitly invited to draw my own conclusions
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