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A necessary history lesson: Patrick Buchanan's Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War teaches a history lesson that warns America not to follow the same path Britain took in the early 20th century.(Book review)

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Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, by Patrick J. Buchanan: New York: Random House, 2008, 518 pages, hardcover $29.95.

Pat Buchanan's new book Churchill. Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World defies one of the unstated rules of American historiography, according to which all major questions about World War II are already decided and all discussion of that war is to occur in a giant echo chamber. Even to wonder whether there might have been an alternative to 50 million deaths and Soviet domination of eastern Europe, ...

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