Patrick J. Buchanan

Hardcover book, 544 pages
ISBN: 978-0-307-40515-9
Stock Number: 0005


An impressively argued and persuasively written debunking of the widely-accepted “official” story of the origins of World War II, by one of America’s most influential public commentators. This is the most important revisionist treatment in many years of the origins and consequences of the First and Second World Wars.

Buchanan provides a masterful dissection of the iconic image of British premier Winston Churchill.

Drawing on the work of more than a hundred historians, Buchanan’s insight into the true cause of Britain’s collapse has been embraced by strategic experts, among them the dean of Cold War diplomacy George Kennan, who concurred with Buchanan’s central argument, at the heart of this book, that it was Britain’s 1939 war guarantee to Poland that sealed their fate and doomed the Empire.

This book masterfully traces the historic failures of judgment that ended centuries of European rule and ensured a future no one who lived in that vanished world could ever have envisioned.

Buchanan concludes with timely warnings about US foreign policy today.

With dust jacket, photos, source references, and index.