Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
by: Patrick J. Buchanan
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Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe’s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations.
Among the British and Churchillian blunders were:
• The secret decision of a tiny cabal in the inner Cabinet in 1906 to take Britain straight to war against Germany, should she invade France
• The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that muti- lated Germany, leaving her bitter, betrayed, and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler
• Britain’s capitulation, at Churchill’s urging, to American pressure to sever the Anglo- Japanese alliance, insulting and isolating Japan, pushing her onto the path of militarism and conquest
• The 1935 sanctions that drove Italy straight into the Axis with Hitler
• The greatest blunder in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939—that guaranteed the Second World War
• Churchill’s astonishing blindness to Stalin’s true ambitions.
Certain to create controversy and spirited argument, Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War” is a grand and bold insight into the historic failures of judgment that ended centuries of European rule and guaranteed a future no one who lived in that vanished world could ever have envisioned.
Were World Wars I and II—which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction—inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond men’s control? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment? In this monumental and provocative history, Patrick Buchanan makes the case that, if not for the blunders of British statesmen—Winston Churchill first among them—the horrors of two world wars and the Holocaust might have been avoided and the British Empire might never have collapsed into ruins. Half a century of murderous oppression of scores of millions under the iron boot of Communist tyranny might never have happened, and Europe’s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations.
Among the British and Churchillian blunders were:
• The secret decision of a tiny cabal in the inner Cabinet in 1906 to take Britain straight to war against Germany, should she invade France
• The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that muti- lated Germany, leaving her bitter, betrayed, and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler
• Britain’s capitulation, at Churchill’s urging, to American pressure to sever the Anglo- Japanese alliance, insulting and isolating Japan, pushing her onto the path of militarism and conquest
• The 1935 sanctions that drove Italy straight into the Axis with Hitler
• The greatest blunder in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939—that guaranteed the Second World War
• Churchill’s astonishing blindness to Stalin’s true ambitions.
Certain to create controversy and spirited argument, Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War” is a grand and bold insight into the historic failures of judgment that ended centuries of European rule and guaranteed a future no one who lived in that vanished world could ever have envisioned.
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- A must read
This is a must read for every "Baby Boomer" and all of "The Greatest Generation".... It talks to the corruption of power in politics and in ALL the leadership at the time. FASCINATING, FRUSTRATING READ!!!
Rating: - Six million here, six million there
Many people are bringing up the 6 million jews who died in WWII.I believe 40 million Russians died, 17 million Germans and so on.That is not the premise of the book.It is plain and clear that the book is about the diplomatic efforts or lack thereof during the time span before, during and after WWI & WWII and how those efforts, if 20/20 hindsight was used could have prevented both wars and the obvious shortcomings of Churchill who was only worried about how much territory the British Empire ... Read More
Rating: - Churchill, Hitler, and the unnecessary war by P.J. Buchanan
A very informative book. Mr. Buchanan impresses with a clear analytical mind. A 'must read' for anyone interested in history.
Werner Brach
Rating: - Churchill's rise was Britain's downfall: destined to be repeated in the US?
Pat Buchannan's Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World is a thought provoking and solid, if non-conventional look at the First and Second World Wars, or what Buchannan says historians will look back on "as two phases of the Great Civil War of the West".Buchannan, better known to American readers as a conservative politician, Presidential speechwriter and political commentator, shows considerable chops as a historian of the 20th Century ... Read More
Rating: - Personal Tour of PJB Library! (Churchill Hitler & Unnecessary War Bibliography)
After finishing this fantastic book I was surprised how well documented and researched it was!
That is until I found this little video of PJB explaining his work technique and getting into great details about his choice of bibliography for this book! Enjoy!
[...]
- A must readThis is a must read for every "Baby Boomer" and all of "The Greatest Generation".... It talks to the corruption of power in politics and in ALL the leadership at the time. FASCINATING, FRUSTRATING READ!!!
- Six million here, six million thereMany people are bringing up the 6 million jews who died in WWII.I believe 40 million Russians died, 17 million Germans and so on.That is not the premise of the book.It is plain and clear that the book is about the diplomatic efforts or lack thereof during the time span before, during and after WWI & WWII and how those efforts, if 20/20 hindsight was used could have prevented both wars and the obvious shortcomings of Churchill who was only worried about how much territory the British Empire ... Read More
- Churchill, Hitler, and the unnecessary war by P.J. BuchananA very informative book. Mr. Buchanan impresses with a clear analytical mind. A 'must read' for anyone interested in history.
Werner Brach
- Churchill's rise was Britain's downfall: destined to be repeated in the US?Pat Buchannan's Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World is a thought provoking and solid, if non-conventional look at the First and Second World Wars, or what Buchannan says historians will look back on "as two phases of the Great Civil War of the West".Buchannan, better known to American readers as a conservative politician, Presidential speechwriter and political commentator, shows considerable chops as a historian of the 20th Century ... Read More
- Personal Tour of PJB Library! (Churchill Hitler & Unnecessary War Bibliography)After finishing this fantastic book I was surprised how well documented and researched it was!
That is until I found this little video of PJB explaining his work technique and getting into great details about his choice of bibliography for this book! Enjoy!
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