Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost

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

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 statesmenâ€“ Winston Churchill first among themâ€“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 Europeâ€™s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations.

Among the British and Churchillian errors were:
â€¢ 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
â€¢ The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that mutilated Germany, leaving her bitter, betrayed, and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler
â€¢ Britainâ€™s capitulation, at Churchillâ€™s urging, to American pressure to sever the Anglo-Japanese alliance, insulting and isolating Japan, pushing her onto the path of militarism and conquest
â€¢ 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 â€œthe Unnecessary Warâ€ 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.
Country USA
Brand Crown Forum
Manufacturer Forum Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 3998078
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2009-07-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780307405166

Country	USA
Brand	Crown Forum
Manufacturer	Forum Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	3998078
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2009-07-28
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780307405166

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

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