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Patrick J. Buchanan

Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World Hardcover – May 27, 2008

by Patrick J. Buchanan (Author)

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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.

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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. Certainly World War I, with which Buchanan begins, was a catastrophe for Western civilization whose ramifications continue to be felt. 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. Banking his thesis on such supposed benevolence from Wilhelm II and Adolf Hitler, Buchanan criticizes various British policies of the 1920s and 1930s (who doesn’t?), and argues collaterally with Hitler’s statements disclaiming fundamental conflicts with Britain. 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 line against aggression. Convinced? Controversial as is his wont, Buchanan reminds his large readership that the immediate ignition of WWII can still be disputed. --Gilbert Taylor

About the Author

PATRICK J. 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. The author of nine other books, including the bestsellers Right from the Beginning; A Republic, Not an Empire; The Death of the West; State of Emergency; and Day of Reckoning, 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 Capital Gang and Crossfire. He is now a senior political analyst for MSNBC.

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Hardcover: 544 pages
Publisher: Crown; First Edition edition (May 27, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 030740515X
ISBN-13: 978-0307405159
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Outstandingly clear.

February 1, 2018

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Outstandingly clear. Could not put it down.
The story of how Churchill's , and other British elite, persistently poor analysis and flawed judgement and decision making led to two world wars and the loss of empire for them; and to the weakening of Western civilization overall.

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The author does an excellent job of condemning British foreign policy and of Winston ...

December 12, 2017

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Very well researched book. The author does an excellent job of condemning British foreign policy and of Winston Churchill in particular. While reading this book one has to remember how easy it is to point out the mistakes of our leaders from one hundred years of hindsight.
The author reminds us again and again how Hitler and the Kaiser never wanted a war with Britain but that is only ascertain with opening of sealed historical documents long after those wars were over.
I agree that Britain bungled the world into two world wars but Churchill was not near the despot Hitler or to a lesser extent the Kaiser was. The prime minister lost his empire so that the world could be dominated by the west. I'll take that trade off anytime.

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December 9, 2017

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What can be said about Pat Buchanan? Shortly after the Trump inauguration, Sam Tanenhaus in Esquire wrote "When Pat
Buchanan tried to make America Great Again" and Tim Alberta of Politico wrote "The Ideas Made It, but I Didn't". Tucker
Carlson, who became the premier prime-time Fox host this year, simply said "There's nobody smarter than Pat Buchanan".
Presumably he meant something like "among mainstream political pundits" but the point is taken. And he's not some
ivory tower guy. He ran for President three times, and that was only after serving in several administrations. He's been
compared to Steve Bannon, but he's also Stephen Miller because he wasn't even 30 when he led Nixon's great comeback.
Like Ann Coulter, Pat is often criticized for writing the same doomsday book over and over (until the two memoirs about
the Nixon years). So I'll endorse this as his most ambitious work of scholarship. It has been widely criticized; I like history
but I'm not competent to judge those things. The thesis was made in "A Republic, Not An Empire", but "Churchill, Hitler
and the Unnecessary War" expands it to over 500 pages of reflection beginning with the time before World War I. If
intellectuals are supposed to challenge prevailing presuppositions, it seems that Pat is here doing his job. Hitler's goal
was world domination? Ok, but this book goes into great detail about the specifics of what was going on in Eastern
Europe, Russia, etc. and what the military strategies and calculations were among all the parties involved. A lot of this
is still counterintuitive today. Let's assume that John Lukacs' critique was basically accurate. I'd still say that Pat has
done a service by provoking serious thought about this history in a way that no figure of comparable stature has done.

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Everyone should read this book!

May 2, 2017

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History is written by the victors and that's definitely true for both World Wars. But this book will enlighten the reader because it presents a different narrative than we were taught in school and is reinforced by our media and entertainment industry. It will anger the thoughtful reader to learn of the stupidity and arrogance of Europe's leaders and US presidents in taking the world into a war in 1914 which they could have avoided; could have stopped even after it started; and after it was over, laid the groundwork for the Second World War. What's astonishing is that WW2 also could have been avoided, but once again, stupid and arrogant leaders took the world down the path to death and destruction. This book is a must read for the scholar and the amateur historian, for liberals and conservatives alike.

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The original Neo-con

October 12, 2017

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Churchill is the original Neo-con. Funny how he is held up as a conservative hero when he was on both sides of the political spectrum

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February 17, 2018

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An excellent analysis of the how the Second World War in Europe began. Buchanan looks at all of the actors involved in the start of the war. British stupidity and duplicity, Polish intransigence, French reluctance, Stalin's cunning, and Hitler's desire to revise the unjust treaty of Versailles really stand out. These arguments are from books elsewhere which Buchanan forges into his own book. Three of most important books he draws upon are AJP Taylor's Origins of the Second World War, William Henry Chamberlin's America's Second Crusade, and Ralph Raico's Great War and Great Leaders. If you do not know these books you should read these books in addition to Buchanan.You will then understand the origins of the Second World War in Europe.

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