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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 the path of militarism and conquest
• The greatest mistake in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939, ensuring the Second World War

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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File Size: 7924 KB
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Publisher: Crown Forum (May 27, 2008)
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
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Language: English
ASIN: B0011UGM3W
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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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Bill Dukes

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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RoninCT

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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Pseudo D

Pat the Great

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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Jerry

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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Truth Seeker

Important and Timely Insight into the Secret History of Warmongering

December 21, 2014

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Meticulously researched and stunning insight into the real history and background of WWII, the foundations of which were laid long before WWI, and the structure of which was crafted and built at Versailles in 1919. Those whom we have always regarded as heroes are revealed as distasteful psychopaths, and those whom we have long regarded as bellicose villains are revealed as having sincerely tried to avert the horrifying disaster of World War II. These two wars, and in particular the Second, altered the face of Europe and its civilization for ever, and gave rise to the Cold War with its millions of deaths and many trillions of wasted dollars. We cannot begin to imagine the completely different world of 100 years ago, but this wonderful book helps us to understand the motivations and methods by which European civilization, and that of the entire world, was devastated by a tiny handful of men driven by an insane lust for blood and chaos. A most important book for the student of history who wants to know why the Holocaust was allowed to happen, why the many opportunities to avoid the war were thrown away, and why the many opportunities to shorten it, which would have saved countless millions of lives, were obstructed by greedy and psychopathic powers working out of the public view. In the world of 2014, a new cast of short-sighted psychopaths with no understanding of history is agitating to plunge the world into WWIII, which would truly be the War To End All Wars, as well as the human race. This book is very timely even today, and should be read by anyone who wants to understand how this mass-extinction event - WWIII - could so easily come to pass, as we cede more and more power to immoral and amoral leaders and media moguls.

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