"I have a great admiration for the teaching company because of its willingness to release academic courses to the wider public but i this one was a mistake. this guy isn't even a British or Modern European specialist. This course is very outdated (the long dead great men theory of history) and the nature of the field has advanced far beyond what is being said here, its as if this course was made in the 1950s. Fears has nothing bad to say about Churchill and I do not shy away in saying this is blatant hagiography. Churchill was a blatant imperialist fighting to save a dying empire which had wrought great misery on the world. As for the misery Fears has little to say about the butchery in Greece, Iraq, Ireland, the bungling in India ect...that Churchill was responsible for. And in spite of all of Fears' blabbing to the contrary Churchill was something of a failure. He did not and could not save the empire, Britain under his watch became a lap dog of the United States which it remains to this day. The material aside the presentation is awful, Fears hs a high pitched sing-song voice that is VERY annoying. So much so that at times i just had to turn it off. Avoid it."
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