Churchill, Hitler, and ""The Unnecessary War"": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World...

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Patrick J. Buchanan

Churchill, Hitler, and ""The Unnecessary War""

How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

Patrick J. Buchanan

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English

Three Rivers Press (CA)
28 July 2009

History; General & world history; British & Irish history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Military history; Second World War

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Broad appeal to readers of history, particularly those seeking the ""what if"" scenarios that plunged Europe into war in 1914 and 1939. For readers of such classics as Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August and The Proud Tower, Margaret Macmillan's Paris 1919, Niall Ferguson's The War of the World and Empire and Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers. And of course this book is also for readers of conservative thought who have consistently made Pat Buchanan a bestselling author.

Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? 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

errors 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 mutilated 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 greatest mistake in British

history- the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939, ensuring the Second

World War

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.

By: Patrick J. Buchanan
Imprint: Three Rivers Press (CA)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9780307405166
ISBN 10: 0307405168
Pages: 544
Publication Date: 28 July 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active