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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Author: Patrick J. BuchananEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-27
ISBN: 030740515X
Number of pages: 544
Publisher: Crown
Book Reviews of Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
Book Review: Six million here, six million there
Summary: 5 Stars
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 (You know, all those third world countries at the time that Britain ruled with a heavy hand) was going to loose and their subsequent lack of prestige after the fact that now makes Britain a second rate world power. . Whether Mr. Buchanan is an antisemite, which he is not, is irrelevant. Everytime someone fails to bring up the fact that 6 million jews died in any book about WWII they are labeled antisemite. Pretty soon it is like the boy who cried wolf! Get over it, this is not a book about Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and so forth. Thousands of books have been written about those horrible places. Two and a half million Germans died AFTER WWII at the hands of the Allies but no one ever hears about that. So to all you critics out there stick to the facts about the book and read between the lines.
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Summary of Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
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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