<![CDATA[Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World]]>

false <![CDATA[Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256151582m/2258833.jpg 2258833 2 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. 2264783 27 5 2008 Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World total:61|5:23|4:21|3:12|2:3|1:2| 61 243 160 29 4 2 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 17 19:35:10 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 17 19:45:53 -0800 2008
This is not a flattering portrail of Churchill. He is shown to have failed to see the perils of using the Soviet Union to defeat the Nazis.

Buchanan's view is that...more...]]> 4 2 false false Wed Aug 27 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 14 06:05:29 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 14:18:26 -0700 2008 2 1 false false Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 20:55:33 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 02 17:41:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 17 08:11:02 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 17 08:32:46 -0800 2008
On the good side, the premise is fascinating. The book's idea is that the result of the Second World War -- destuction of the British Empire, Soviet domination of much of Europe, and of course, the human suffering...more...]]> 3 1 false true Mon Sep 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 10:48:32 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 08 10:57:59 -0700 2008
The overall premise is that the Kaiser in Germany prior to WW I, did not want to go to war with Britain. And Britain only went to war with Germany in WW I due to Germany's claim...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 09:59:16 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 10:20:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jul 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 14:07:20 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 14:20:35 -0700 2008
Buchanan has done that with this book, laying the blame for WWI and WWII on the British, who, Buchanan claims, misunderstood the inten...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 08:50:52 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 22 06:44:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 02 21:20:51 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 22:28:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 09:05:19 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 10 09:07:16 -0800 2008 1 4 1 false false Fri Sep 12 06:44:44 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 12 06:48:17 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Mar 21 11:43:02 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 18:56:53 -0700 2009
It is a great story. Pathetic little Winnie grows up to become Man of the...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jan 23 11:44:48 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 12:15:59 -0800 2009 In Buchanan's story Churchill is portrayed as a great speech-maker and warlord lacking good judgement. His attac...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Mar 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 09:26:25 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 12 09:30:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Oct 15 11:16:35 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 15 11:19:37 -0700 2008 5 1 false false Thu Jun 19 15:43:01 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 30 15:51:15 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 05:33:18 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 12:39:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 20:35:04 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 20:43:08 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 17:33:42 -0800 2009 Sun Mar 01 15:10:26 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 07:55:33 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 08:01:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=2258833