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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- Tough Questions. Few Answers.
They say war makes strange bed-fellows but WWII had some of the strangest. Buchanan has tackled a thorny subject- and once you start asking the sort of questions he asks, it's hard to stop. Could someone tell me why Russia was allowed to invade Poland and Germany was not? Why would 'racist' Hitler ally himself with 'yellow' Japan? Why would Hitler declare war on the U.S.? Why were the Nazi death camps not bombed? Why would Eisenhower allow Berlin to be taken by the Soviets (an indescribable slap ... Read More
Rating: - An important book that needs to be read and understood
Pat Buchanan has written an important book, a book that needs to be read and understood by all those who are comfortable in their assumptions about the causes of World War 2. The main thesis of Buchanan's book is simple: Hitler did NOT want a world war, he wanted a war against the Soviet Union ONLY. It was the British government who sparked off the 'unnecessary' global war by offering an unconditional guarantee to Poland.
Of course, those who view Hitler as some kind of inhuman, satanic ... Read More
Rating: - Great book to read
I have been reading about the war and W.S.Churchill for some 30 years and I must say this is one of the most facinating book. It really shows the different options Britain had before the start of the second world war. I could not put it down.
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- Buchanan: No Anglophile
Patrick J. Buchanan's book "The Unnecessary War", Proports to shed new light on the folly of British appeasement and blunder leading up to World War II. Beginning with Churchill's appointment of First Lord of the Admiralty during the Great War and eventual leadership of the British government during the second world war. Buchanan asserts that Churchill was a duplicitous war hungry politician. What is earth shattering about that? Historians with a greater pedigree than Buchanan have written extensively ... Read More
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- absolutely and totally insane
This book is essentially the old pro-axis view of the world circia 1940. It adopts the German arguments of the 1930s that the priority of the British should be to preserve their empire while giving germany a free hand in europe. That a world war with germany would "doom" the British empire. Why anyone would choose to make these particular highly discredited arguments now is beyond comprehension.
The historical arguments made in the book are basically naive (being generious) garbage. He proposes ... Read More
- Tough Questions. Few Answers.They say war makes strange bed-fellows but WWII had some of the strangest. Buchanan has tackled a thorny subject- and once you start asking the sort of questions he asks, it's hard to stop. Could someone tell me why Russia was allowed to invade Poland and Germany was not? Why would 'racist' Hitler ally himself with 'yellow' Japan? Why would Hitler declare war on the U.S.? Why were the Nazi death camps not bombed? Why would Eisenhower allow Berlin to be taken by the Soviets (an indescribable slap ... Read More
- An important book that needs to be read and understoodPat Buchanan has written an important book, a book that needs to be read and understood by all those who are comfortable in their assumptions about the causes of World War 2. The main thesis of Buchanan's book is simple: Hitler did NOT want a world war, he wanted a war against the Soviet Union ONLY. It was the British government who sparked off the 'unnecessary' global war by offering an unconditional guarantee to Poland.
Of course, those who view Hitler as some kind of inhuman, satanic ... Read More
- Great book to readI have been reading about the war and W.S.Churchill for some 30 years and I must say this is one of the most facinating book. It really shows the different options Britain had before the start of the second world war. I could not put it down.
- Buchanan: No AnglophilePatrick J. Buchanan's book "The Unnecessary War", Proports to shed new light on the folly of British appeasement and blunder leading up to World War II. Beginning with Churchill's appointment of First Lord of the Admiralty during the Great War and eventual leadership of the British government during the second world war. Buchanan asserts that Churchill was a duplicitous war hungry politician. What is earth shattering about that? Historians with a greater pedigree than Buchanan have written extensively ... Read More
- absolutely and totally insaneThis book is essentially the old pro-axis view of the world circia 1940. It adopts the German arguments of the 1930s that the priority of the British should be to preserve their empire while giving germany a free hand in europe. That a world war with germany would "doom" the British empire. Why anyone would choose to make these particular highly discredited arguments now is beyond comprehension.
The historical arguments made in the book are basically naive (being generious) garbage. He proposes ... Read More
