As a contributor to all but one of CODOH’s Inconvenient History volumes, Joseph Bishop has taken on a prominent role with the new revisionist journal, having only been out produced by Editor Richard Widmann and heavy contributor Thomas Kues. Readers might remember Bishop from his
abysmal treatment of the shootings of Soviet Jews, succinctly responded to on this blog. While Bishop never made any response to the criticisms despite being made aware of them, we can detect his aversion of the open-air shootings topic in his
recent book review of John Mosier’s Deathride.
In this blog, the details and evidence for Mosier’s revisionist-oriented argument regarding the Eastern front in Deathride will not be explored. It should be pointed out, however, that Mosier, who is an English professor at Loyola University, has been heavily criticized for his works by military historians.
In a review of Mosier’s The Myth of the Great War and The Blitzkrieg Myth noted scholar Jeremy Black strongly disapproved of his works, pessimistically viewing the popularity of the deeply flawed works as a “triumph of emotion over reason.” Deathride continues Mosier’s authorship of “poor history,” according to
military historian Alexander Hill. It might then be appropriate that Bishop declared the work to be “refreshing and pleasantly surprising to revisionists.”
