Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War"

How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

By: Patrick J. Buchanan

Narrated by: Don Leslie

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 man’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 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 • The greatest blunder in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland of March 1939–that guaranteed 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 that no one who lived in that vanished world could ever have envisioned.

Revisionist? History

This is an important book. Unlike the guns of August Mr. Buchanan not merely presents history but also interprets and thinks deeply about it.His concepts are important. Although Mr. Hitler was a monster, Mr. Stalin was an even greater monster. One the west destroyed, the other was embraced. Mr Churchill and Mr. Chamberlain permitted the reoccupation of the Rhineland, Austria and Czechloslavakia; the treaty of Munich; and the alliance with Poland that forced World War II.They may have been as culpable as the Germans. All of this could have been avoided with more judicious leaders on both sides. I found it impossible to believe that such a well researched, well written, thoughtful tomb could have come from Mr. Buchanan.

Everything you’re taught is a lie

I thought I knew a lot about the world wars and what led up to them. I was taught that Churchill is nothing less than a saint and that democracy stepped up and saved the world in the 20th century. All lies addressed by Buchanan with facts and sources. This book is a must read for Anyone looking for the truth about the 20th century and why over a 100 million people died in some of the most barbaric wars and genocides in history

Great listen

In a world polluted by conformity and party line this book sheds a different point of view on leaders and government. It is not for the faint of heart. At the least should create dissonance or worse.

Well someone had to say it!

A critical review of the life of Winston Churchill, his political accomplishments, and his massive foreign policy blunders that set up WWI and WWII. He alone could have changed world history. I’ve always been under the opinion that Churchill was not the savior of England, quite the contrary, he brought about the end of the British Empire and stalled if not ended the advancement of Western Civilization.

I read this on the heals of “Gandhi and Churchill”, also a great book that shows the early life of Churchill through to the end.

Next up “A Republic Not An Empire” also by Pat Buchanan

Unbelievably put together and coherent

I will never look at WW2 in the same light again. A must read ,and audio book masterpiece!