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  • Published: 28 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780307405166
  • Imprint: Christian/Forum
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $39.99
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Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War"

How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World




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.

  • Published: 28 July 2009
  • ISBN: 9780307405166
  • Imprint: Christian/Forum
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 560
  • RRP: $39.99
Categories:

About the author

Patrick J. Buchanan

PATRICK J. BUCHANAN, America's leading populist conservative, was senior adviser to three American presidents, ran for the Republican nomination in 1992 and 1996, and was the Reform Party's presidential candidate in 2000. The author of eleven other books, Buchanan is a syndicated columnist and founding member of three of America's foremost public affairs shows, NBC's The McLaughlin Group and CNN's The Capitol Gang and Crossfire. He lives in McLean, Virginia.

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