A review by fredcthulhu
Churchill, Hitler and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World by Patrick J. Buchanan

4.0

A very important and much needed look at how England's foreign policy actions contributed to the start of both World Wars. The start of wars no matter how immoral and "evil" one side is never black and white. Buchanan puts forth the idea that Britain's foreign policy to be Europe's main power is a leading factor to the start of WW1. He also argues that Britain's war guarantee of Poland is one of the main reasons for the start of WW2. He argues Britain should have let Hitler's Germany have Eastern Europe and let Russia and Germany fight over it and then let Britain take care of the winner instead of fighting Nazi Germany and then conceding Eastern Europe to and equally bad if not worse Stalin. In both mistakes he casts Churchill as the main villain. Buchanan's paleoconservatism really shines through when he posits that the "European Civil War" is the downfall of the Western world and that the US is now making the same mistakes that Britain made in the first 40 years of the 20th century.