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Churchill and the Avoidable War: Could World War II have been Prevented? Paperback – October 25, 2015
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- Print length122 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 25, 2015
- Dimensions6 x 0.31 x 9 inches
- ISBN-101518690351
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- Publisher : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; 1st edition (October 25, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 122 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1518690351
- ISBN-13 : 978-1518690358
- Item Weight : 6.7 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.31 x 9 inches
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Richard Langworth (https://richardlangworth.com/), a writer and historian, has produced twelve books on Winston Churchill and 60 books on automotive history. Since 2014 Mr. Langworth has been Senior Fellow for the Hillsdale College Churchill Project, an endowed, permanent center of Churchill Studies in North America. In 1968 Langworth founded "Finest Hour," a Churchill journal which he edited for 35 years, producing 150 issues. His 1000Churchill articles have appeared in "The American Spectator," "Weekly Standard," "National Review," "Commentary," "American Thinker," "Daily Caller" and "Washington Times." In 1998, he was appointed by HM The Queen as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to Anglo-American relations and the memory of Sir Winston Churchill.
In 2019, Hillsdale completes the final volume of Churchill’s official biography, 31 volumes in all, which began 56 years ago. Hillsdale also houses the Martin Gilbert Papers and sponsors Churchill seminars, publications, tours and online courses. It is the future home of Langworth's and others' Churchill archives, and is developing a digital index-resource to 100 million words by and about Churchill. Read more at winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu.
Richard Langworth published the first edition in volume form of Churchill's "The Dream" (1987) and the first American edition of Churchill’s "India" (1990). He is author or editor of "A Connoisseur’s Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill" (1998), "Churchill by Himself" (2008, Kindle 2015), "The Definitive Wit of Winston Churchill" (2009), "The Patriot’s Churchill" (2010), "All Will Be Well: Good Advice from Winston Churchill" (2011), "Churchill in His Own Words" (2012), "Churchill and the Avoidable War" (2015) and "Winston Churchill: Myth and Reality" (2016). His next book is an expanded edition of "Churchill by Himself," with 500 new quotations and a comprehensive index.
Richard and Barbara Langworth have hosted eleven Churchill and eight automotive tours in England, Scotland, France and Australia (1983-2008) and were Churchill specialist booksellers (1984-2004). In 2019 Langworth lectures at Hillsdale on March 24-28 and the Hillsdale College cruise around Britain June 1-15.
Langworth wrote his first automotive article in 1969. He was associate and senior editor of "Automobile Quarterly" (1970-75); and editor of "The Vintage Triumph" (1974-77), "The Packard Cormorant" (1975-2001), "Car Classics" (1976), and "Automotive Investor" (1988-90). He has written 2000 articles on automotive history; his books include "Kaiser-Frazer: Last Onslaught on Detroit," "Triumph Cars," "The Studebaker Century," "The Encyclopedia of American Cars," "GM: 100 Years," and "Packard: A History of the Motorcar and the Company."
Richard Langworth is a graduate of Wagner College and a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. He resides in Moultonborough, New Hampshire and Eleuthera, Bahamas.
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Readers can always count on Richard Langworth for both accuracy and fairness when reading anything he publishes on the topic of Churchill and his times. Langworth always gets his facts right and is fair in his assessments of not only Churchill but also his political opponents of this era--Baldwin and Chamberlain. When Churchill was right, when he was mistaken and when we simply can't be sure Langworth can be counted on to point it out. We can also count on him to avoid both factual errors and the omission of material information regarding his subject matter--an essential but, sadly, increasingly rare attribute in today's writing about Churchill.
Churchill had a career of incredible length (60+ years) in multiple pursuits (literary, military and political) and in which he dealt with complex and momentous world affairs as a senior government minister in both World Wars. As a result of the volume and complexity of the public affairs with which Churchill dealt, his life is one in which it is easy for an author to honestly overlook important details or to manipulate the facts to paint a misrepresentative portrait.
This book is a superb approach to dealing with the complexity of certain issues in Churchill's life. The author selects an important issue (Could World War II have been avoided had Churchill's advice during the "Appeasement Era" been followed?) and examines in depth the diplomatic events of the era along with what Churchill had to say about them at the time and later. By focusing solely on this narrow, but important and complex issue Langworth is able to first ferret out all of the relevant facts. He is then well positioned to reach his conclusions regarding the book's central question. The complexity of the topic demands this much detail in weighing the issue thoroughly, but devoting the requisite 100 pages is beyond the space available in other works covering Churchill and this period of history.
Hopefully, Richard Langworth will continue with the application of this approach to other complex, important and frequently misunderstood (or intentionally misrepresented) episodes in Churchill's long life. It is badly needed!
An example of what I reference above is that of Churchill's comments about Hitler during the 1930's. Here one finds not only Churchill's specific comments (all of them, including all of the relevant portions) in speeches, interviews, magazine articles and books, but also pertinent aspects of the political situation which Churchill faced at the time of publication. For example, he was urged to "tone it down" by the Foreign Office before one publication. Langworth gives us not only that fact but also the portions Churchill felt compelled to remove from the final version.
As other reviewers have pointed out, Langworth differentiates between what Churchill said at the time and what he said later with the benefit of hindsight. Most importantly, he does so with an even handed analysis. As icing on the cake, we are treated to all this in a work of only 98 pages, making it a quick as well as informative read.
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That is the premise of this book. Is there enough support here that Churchill predicted ahead of time that a new world
war could happen if the policies of the Chamberlain government and her Allies were not altered ?
And could it have been prevented by a new Triple Entente ?
Revisionists have always tried to discredit the warnings, statements and pre-war actions of Churchill. It is my opnion
that this small book does a very convincing job in showing that Churchill was right on the large issues. And when he was
quiet on Abyssinia or poorly informed about the will of the Austrian people, it made very little difference.
Richard Langworth makes a strong case through facts and references from the pre-war years and not through hindsight,
that Churchill predicted the threat from Hitler and Nazi-Germany.
His warnings about the failings of the policies of the governments of England and France all came true.
The British government was not the only one that completely underestimated the directions that Hitler was taking his country.
For instance in Holland, country of my birth,their Prime Minister, mr.Colijn (1933-1939) in a radio broadcast in 1936 to
the Dutch people stated :
" The threatening world storm will pass the Netherlands by, the government will take care of that.
The Dutch people can sleep peacefully. " It haunted him for the rest of his life. Colijn spend all the war years
in a German prison camp.
But when Hitler could be heard on the Dutch radio, people like my grandfather reacted very differently. He predicted that all
this would end very badly.
One more important point I like to make.
If Winston Churchill had been even more critical, more aggressive to government and colleagues in Parliament
he probably would have alienated himself much more then was good for the country.
Would Chamberlain still have brought him back in the government in 1939 ?
And would King George VI have enough confidence in Churchill to offer him the Premiership in May '40 ?
England could easily have ended up with a Lord Halifax type Prime Minister.
Indeed a scary thought !
I know this is hindsight, but without Churchill's great statemanship and diplomacy this could easily have happened.
The author tells us correctly tells us that a new Tri-Entente, with the support of Poland and Czechoslovakia
could have stopped Munich and all that came after that. Hitler's reign could have ended right then,
but Churchill did not know that at the time.
This book is not only a must read for Churchillians, but also should be available via the Internet, in bookstores
and in school libraries.






