Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"

Human Smoke http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&printsec=f... Churchill, Hitler, and "the unnecessary war": how Britain lost its empire and the West lost the world http://books.google.com/books?id=PYESsQRyIIMC&printsec=f... Both books are iconoclastic looks at how WWII came to be, and whether it was truly a "just" war. The second is by Pat Buchanan, but neither book is crazy or racist. Both are extremely well-researched and documented. Pat Buchanan's book is explicitly in response to the "just war" trope which was used to justify the US occupation of Iraq, but I think I see the same motivation in Human Smoke . The most interesting single tidbit I learned from the two books was that Roosevelt was an anti-semite: http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&lpg=PP1... (I looked that vignette up in Morgenthau's memoirs. The story …

If you like this kind of thing, you will enjoy Pat Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War" and Nicholson Baker's Human Smoke http://books.google.com/books?id=PYESsQRyIIMC&printsec=f... http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&printsec=f...

… in to the aggressor" and the war lasted four terrible years. Some good books/articles on the subject: Liberty Or Equality ( http://blog.mises.org/archives/006326.asp ), The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, Once an ArchDuke by Archduke Ferdinand, "Churchill on the Great War" - http://themonarchist.blogspot.com/2008/08/churchill-on-great... , Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"