Churchill Hitler and The Unnecessary War

<b>Were World Wars I and II inevitable? Were they necessary wars? Or were they products of calamitous failures of judgment?</b><br><br> In this monumental and provocative history Patrick Buchanan makes the case that if not for the blunders of British statesmen&#150; Winston Churchill first among them&#150;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&#146;s central role in world affairs might have been sustained for many generations.<br><br> Among the British and Churchillian errors were:<br> &#149; 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<br> &#149; The vengeful Treaty of Versailles that mutilated Germany leaving her bitter betrayed and receptive to the appeal of Adolf Hitler<br> &#149; Britain&#146;s capitulation at Churchill&#146;s urging to American pressure to sever the Anglo-Japanese alliance insulting and isolating Japan pushing her onto the path of militarism and conquest<br> &#149; The greatest mistake in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939 ensuring the Second World War<br><br> Certain to create controversy and spirited argument <i>Churchill Hitler and &#147;the Unnecessary War&#148;</i> 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.