Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" - Patrick J. Buchanan

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.