Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

The Hitler of History (New York: A. Lukacs argues that Great Britain (and by extension the British Empire) could not defeat Germany by itself winning required the entry of the United States and the Soviet Union but he contends that Churchill by ensuring that Germany failed to win the war in 1940 laid the groundwork for an Allied victory. Confessions of an Original Sinner (New York: Ticknor and Fields 1990).

He was a professor of history at Chestnut Hill College (where he succeeded Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn) from 1947 to 1994 and held the chair of that history department from 1947 to 1974. John Adalbert Lukacs (born Lukács János Albert on 31 January 1924) is a Hungarian-born American historian who has written more than thirty books including Five Days in London May 1940 and A New Republic. He has served as a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University Columbia University Princeton University La Salle University Regent College in British Columbia and the University of Budapest and Hanover College.