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Were the horrors of World Wars I and II, which can now be seen as a 30-year paroxysm of slaughter and destruction, inevitable? Were these 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 - with Winston Churchill as the foremost 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. Moreover, 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 that Buchanan identifies are the following: 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; and the greatest blunder in British history: the unsolicited war guarantee to Poland in March 1939, which 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. Buchanan's work challenges the conventional wisdom and prevailing narratives about the inevitability and necessity of the two world wars, instead suggesting that they were the result of catastrophic mistakes made by British leaders.

The book's provocative thesis will undoubtedly elicit strong reactions, as Buchanan's revisionist interpretation of these pivotal events in modern history runs counter to the widely accepted views. Nevertheless, his analysis offers a compelling alternative perspective that invites readers to reconsider the causal factors behind the global conflicts that transformed the 20th century. Regardless of one's stance on the issues raised, Churchill, Hitler and 'the Unnecessary War' is a thought-provoking and impactful work that demands careful consideration and discourse.

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