Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
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| Rating | : | 4.78 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0307405168 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 544 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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John Thomas Ciappetta said Buchanan is a Genius!. I've read this book twice now in an 8 year span. This is the best book I've ever read about Winston S. Churchill, and Adolph Hitler. Church is commonly referred to as the man of the century, and that may very well be a good title, but not for the reasons commonly discussed. In my opinion he would be man of. Informative but biased Mixed book. Some good points, but Buchanan can't resist interpreting everything his way so it supports his isolationist beliefs. He is overly harsh on Churchill, gives Chamberlin too much credit, and oddly, declines to say what Hitler would have done had Britain just stood by and watched. He thinks Hitler . "The negative reviews are baseless" according to Joseph Hession. Ignore the negative reviews. This is a history book with 50% historian quotes, 25% quotes from the actors in their situation (Hitler, Churchill, et. al.), and 25% thesis. It's the way a fun + educational history book should be. Forget our socaliist textbooks. Buchanan makes his case far more convincingly.T
From Booklist Taking his swing at the origins of World War II, conservative pundit Buchanan incorporates the subject into his warnings, expressed in several populist jeremiads (State of Emergency, 2006), of the decline of the West. Buchanan’s interpretation generally holds that British and American participation in both WWI and WWII was avoidable if British leaders had recognized that Germany was no threat to the vital interests of the British Empire. The weakness in Buchanan’s line of thinking, of course, is that by 1939, Hitler’s international word was worthless; yet Buchanan hinges his case on what might have happened had Britain let Hitler go after Poland in 1939 as it had Czechoslovakia. Speculating a better future had the West permitted Nazi Germany a free hand in Eastern Europe, Buchanan cites the historical costs of Britain and France having at last drawn the l
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 t
BUCHANAN was a senior adviser to three American presidents; ran twice for the Republican presidential nomination, in 1992 and 1996; and was the Reform Party candidate in 2000. PATRICK J. He is now a senior political analyst for MSNBC. . He is the author of nine other books, including the bestsellers Right from the Beginning; A Republic, Not an Empire; The Death