Author and popular historian John Harte was interviewed in his home in Ottawa on June 7, 2025 by journalists Arianna Dagnino and Stefano Gulmanelli, regarding his recently published book entitled Churchill’s Enemies 1927-1940. Husband-and-wife team, Gulmanelli and Dagnin, made a stopover in the capital city on a 3 week coast-to-coast reporting tour of Canada at the Crossroads. The aim of the two hour interview was to discover if Harte recognised a parallel or repetition of history between the rise of the fascist dictators in the 1920s and 1930s, and the emergence of fascism and antisemitism in the West today.

Harte’s most recently published book describes the rise of Mussolini in fascist Italy and Hitler in Nazi Germany, to explain how chaos brought about by incompetence – or incontinent liberalism – created a backlash of fascism and force.

Harte describes himself as nonpolitical, since labels could mean anything or nothing, whereas psychology – which he studied for many years – establishes attitudes and intentions. Since the aim of the two journalists was to write a cross-country chronicle of Canada in crisis, their questions covered every conceivable aspect of Canada and Canadians, including immigrants. Harte is a proud Canadian who has lived in Ottawa for 50 years. He described Canadians as a family that helps each other and welcomes immigrants who can assimilate quickly and become part of the Canadian family themselves.

Canadiensis is a bilingual newsletter – English and Italian – produced by the two journalists “explaining Canada’s path through the challenges of the 21^st century.”

Although John Harte’s new book is Part 2 of Churchill’s Challenges 1918-1927, due to their combined length, each can be read independently of the other. Churchill’s Challenges describes the Middle East Crisis from 1918, when Winston Churchill was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies. His task was to clear up the mess left by the Allied defeat of the German-led Turkish Empire, and fill the leadership vacuum by installing Arab kings in Jordan and Iraq. Churchill did his best to prevent communism from spilling over Soviet Russian borders and tainting the British Isles during the Russian Civil War from 1917. He also warned the British Government of the Nazi German threat when he was out of office in 1919-1939.

Churchill’s Enemies 1927-1940 is largely about the rise of Mussolini’s fascist Italy, Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and General Franco’s falangist Spain. As a corollary to the rise of Nazi Germany, the author also describes “The Hitler of the Middle East.” He was the malevolent Mufti of Jerusalem who worked from Berlin to ferment anti-British, anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish hatred in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Germany. His objective then – as it is of other death cults like Hamas now – was to kill all Westerners in the Middle East and take over all the territory.

Churchill’s Enemies was published by Pen & Sword Military in the UK at the end of May. It will be distributed in the United States and Canada at the end of July.

Learn more on the author’s website.