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only when it suits him; when Taylor's conclusions are at variance with Buchanan's views, Buchanan does not cite him. Lukacs objected to Buchanan's argument that Britain should have stood aside and allowed Germany to conquer Eastern Europe as Buchanan ignores just how barbaric and cruel Nazi rule was
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would not have developed the scale that it did without Hitler's invasion of Poland and then the Soviet Union, as he would not otherwise have been in control of most European Jews. Buchanan argues that if Churchill had accepted Hitler's peace offer of 1940, the severity of the Holocaust would have
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Buchanan claims that Wilhelm was desperate to avoid a war in 1914 and accepts the German claim that it was the Russian mobilization of July 31 that forced war on Germany. Buchanan accuses Churchill and Grey of getting Britain to enter the war in 1914 by making promises that Britain would defend
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Buchanan hypothesizes that World War II could have been avoided if the Treaty of Versailles had not been so harsh toward Germany. Buchanan views the treaty as unjust toward Germany and argues that German efforts to revise Versailles were both moral and just. As a result of their humiliation at
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as a source reflects the fact that both Buchanan and Barnett are two embittered conservatives unhappy with the way history worked out, and they prefer to talk about how much nicer history would have been if Britain had not fought in the two world wars or the United States and Britain in
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when they stated that Britain should never have fought Germany or at least should have made peace in 1940, but he ignored the wider point that Clark, Cowling, and Charmley were making: they viewed the United States rather than Germany as the British Empire's main rival.
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were all responsible German statesmen, according to Buchanan, and were working to revise Versailles in a manner that would not threaten the peace of Europe, but they were undermined by the inability and unwillingness of Britain and France to cooperate. Buchanan calls
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were a genuine attempt to build an anti-Soviet German-Polish alliance, especially since Buchanan argues that Germany and Poland shared a common enemy, the Soviet Union. Buchanan claims that Hitler wanted Poland as an ally against the Soviet Union, not an enemy.
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by historians to hide the truth about the two world wars. Kirsch acidly remarked that if that was the case, Buchanan did not need only secondary sources to support his arguments. He accused Buchanan of hypocrisy for denouncing Churchill as a
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endorsed Buchanan's study as a "powerful new book." Margolis wrote that neither Britain nor the United States should have fought in World War II and that it was simply wrong and stupid that millions of people died to stop the 90% German
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and argues that just as Churchill led the British Empire to ruin by causing unnecessary wars with Germany twice, Bush led the United States to ruin by following Churchill's example in involving the United States in an unnecessary
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may be morally more culpable than the use or threatened use of force to alter it." Buchanan maintains that Hitler did not want a war with Britain and that Britain should not have declared war in 1939 on an
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and argued that the only difference between the two was that Irving used lies to support his arguments while Buchanan used half-truths. Lukacs commented that Buchanan cites the left-wing British historian
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who was opposed to non-white immigration to Britain while demanding the same in the United States. He wrote that Buchanan's apocalyptic language about the West in decline owed more to
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myth invented by certain British statesmen and that the record of Germany supports his belief that it was the least militaristic of the European Powers. Buchanan says that until 1914,
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from rejoining Germany. Margolis accepts Buchanan's conclusion that the British "guarantee" of Poland in March 1939 was the greatest geopolitical blunder of the twentieth century.
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who recklessly sought conflict at every chance, and that it was simply nonsense for Buchanan to write of Germany being "encircled" by enemies on all sides before World War I.
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Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance.
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Buchanan also writes that the United States should have stayed out of the events of World War II. However, because the United States insisted for the
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decision to join the wars had a cataclysmic effect globally. One of Buchanan's expressed purposes is to undermine what he described as a "Churchill
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in World War I. Buchanan contends that Hitler was interested in expanding into only Eastern Europe and did not seek territory in
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On the other hand, Buchanan asserts that the greatest responsibility for the breakdown in Anglo-German relations was the "
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called Buchanan's book an "anti-semitic piece of garbage" and accused Buchanan of being unique in that he posited the
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had served in three wars: "Churchill had himself seen more war than almost any soldier in the German army."
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observed that Buchanan joins historians who are more critical of British involvement in World War II.
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Churchill, Hitler, and The Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
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in Eastern Europe in World War II. Finally, Lukacs claimed that Buchanan has often been accused of
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Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World
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as an understandable, if excessive, response to the British "guarantee" of Poland in 1939.
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of 1944 a genocidal plan for the destruction of Germany that was promoted by the vengeful
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than to American conservatives. He also argued that Buchanan's heavy reliance on
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with Britain against their common enemy the Soviet Union. Buchanan calls the
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in 1912 by promising to remain neutral in a war between Germany and France.
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helped influence Britain into the world wars with Germany in 1914 and 1939.
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in 1921, Japan ultimately aligned itself with the Axis and later attacked
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program more moderate than the war aims authorized by German Chancellor
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in both world wars, which he argues was a disaster for the whole world.
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The book has received mostly negative reviews. The Canadian journalist
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against the Western colonial powers during World War I, conducted the
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gave Buchanan's book a negative review and suggested the author is
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as an aggressive move directed at Germany and that it violated the
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Buchanan argues that it was a mistake for Britain to fight
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by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise.
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Buchanan ends his book with an attack on former President
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foreign policy was influenced and inspired by Churchill.
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