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Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
Patrick J. Buchanan
How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the Worl
Crown
June 2008
On Sale: May 27, 2008
544 pages
ISBN: 030740515X
EAN: 9780307405159
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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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