Churchill, Hitler, and "the unnecessary war" : how Britain lost its empire and the West lost the world / Patrick J. Buchanan.
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TextPublication details: New York : Crown Publishers, c2008.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxi, 518 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 030740515X
- 9780307405159
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"In this book, Pat Buchanan sheds new light on the causes on the two world wars that made the twentieth century the bloodiest in history and brought an end to 500 years of western dominance." "Drawing on the work of more than a hundred historians, Buchanan's insight to the true cause of Britain's collapse has been embraced by strategic experts, among them the dean of Cold War diplomacy George Kennan, who concurred with Buchanan's central argument, at the heart of this book, that it was Britain's 1939 war guarantee to Poland that sealed their fate and doomed the Empire."--BOOK JACKET.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-501) and index.
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.--From amazon.com.