Churchill, Hitler, and ''the unnecessary war'': how Britain lost its empire and the West lost the world

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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.;Preface: What happened to us/ -- Introduction: The Great Civil War of the West -- The end of "Splendid Isolation" -- Last summer of yesterday -- "A poisonous spirit of revenge" -- "A lot of silly little cruisers" -- 1935: Collapse of the Stresa Front -- 1936: the Rhineland -- 1938: Anschluss -- Munich -- Fatal blunder -- April fools -- "An unnecessary war" -- Gruesome harvest -- Hitler's ambitions -- Man of the century -- America inherits the empire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Preface: What happened to us/ -- Introduction: The Great Civil War of the West -- The end of "Splendid Isolation" -- Last summer of yesterday -- "A poisonous spirit of revenge" -- "A lot of silly little cruisers" -- 1935: Collapse of the Stresa Front -- 1936: the Rhineland -- 1938: Anschluss -- Munich -- Fatal blunder -- April fools -- "An unnecessary war" -- Gruesome harvest -- Hitler's ambitions -- Man of the century -- America inherits the empire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.