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 IIâ€”which can now be seen as a thirty-year paroxysm of slaughter and destructionâ€”inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Were the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts ever suffered by mankind fated by forces beyond menâ€™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 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 blunders 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 muti- lated 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 1935 sanctions that drove Italy straight into the Axis with Hitler
â€¢ The greatest blunder in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939â€”that guaranteed the Second World War
â€¢ Churchillâ€™s astonishing blindness to Stalinâ€™s true ambitions.

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 Audible
Manufacturer Random House Audio
Binding Audible Audiobook
Format Unabridged
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Audible
Manufacturer	Random House Audio
Binding	Audible Audiobook
Format	Unabridged
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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

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