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

Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Were World Wars I and II - which can now be seen as a 30-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.

©2008 Patrick J. Buchanan (P)2008 Books on Tape

You Won't See WW1 and WW2 History The Same Again

Patrick Buchanan's 'The Unnecessary War' brings some much needed nuance to the histories of both the first and second world war. His scathing analysis and critique of British, German and even American foreign policies leading up to and during both conflicts is a breath of fresh air compared to the dry, uncontroversial, black and white telling of the history we are usually exposed to in most media. I came away from this book with a completely new understanding of the greatest conflicts in human history and I can honestly say that this is one of the few books that has been instrumental in forming my world view.

Spellbinding.

A hypnotic and enraging recounting of how ego and arrogant ignorance consigned 100 million to the flames. Makes me want to topple Winnie's statue myself...

red pil

Red pill your family and friends about the truth of Churchill with this book. honestly it is such an amazing book if you like being told the truth about history and not the Victor's truth of history.

Beware, be very beware

The one thing to take away from this book is to be very aware that articulate politicians are not the best thinkers or leaders.

For Buchanan to accuse Churchill of being a raceist is interesting. Perhaps Buchanan should look at his own words, and his website.

A well written compelling analysis

Buchanan recounts recent history from a perspective quite different from what I held for many years. Although I had long appreciated the sins of revanche there it much more to consider. He sets out facts and credible interpretations. I have both read and listed to the book and highly recommend both versions.

The Most Important Book You Will Ever Read

A convincing and well-researched reappraisal of Churchill and the "good war". Information within will inspire you to ask further questions about the topic.

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