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The Second World War TITLES IN THE BLOOMSBURY REVELATIONS SERIES Aesthetic Theory, Theodor W. Adorno Being and Event, Alain Badiou On Religion, Karl Barth The Language of Fashion, Roland Barthes The Intelligence of Evil, Jean Baudrillard I and Thou, Martin Buber Never Give In!, Winston Churchill The Boer War, Winston Churchill The Second World War, Winston Churchill In Defence of Politics, Bernard Crick Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy, Manuel DeLanda A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Anti-Oedipus, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari Cinema I, Gilles Deleuze Cinema II, Gilles Deleuze Taking Rights Seriously, Ronald Dworkin Discourse on Free Will, Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther Education for Critical Consciousness, Paulo Freire Marx’s Concept of Man, Erich Fromm and Karl Marx To Have or To Be?, Erich Fromm Truth and Method, Hans Georg Gadamer All Men Are Brothers, Mohandas K. Gandhi Violence and the Sacred, Rene Girard The Essence of Truth, Martin Heidegger The Eclipse of Reason, Max Horkheimer The Language of the Third Reich, Victor Klemperer Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre After Virtue, Alasdair Maclntyreq Time for Revolution, Antonio Negri Politics of Aesthetics, Jacques Ranciere Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure An Actor Prepares, Constantin Stanislavski Building A Character, Constantin Stanislavski Creating A Role, Constantin Stanislavski Interrogating the Real, Slavoj Žižek Some titles are not available in North America. The Second World War Abridged Edition With an Epilogue on the Years 1945 to 1957 Winston S. Churchill Moral of the Work IN WAR: RESOLUTION IN DEFEAT: DEFIANCE IN VICTORY: MAGNANIMITY IN PEACE: GOODWILL NOTE The Second World War is an abridgement by Denis Kelly of the following volumes composed by Sir Winston Churchill: The Gathering Storm (1919–May 10, 1940) Their Finest Hour (1940) The Grand Alliance (1941) The Hinge of Fate (1942–July 1943) Closing the Ring (July 1943–June 6, 1944) Triumph and Tragedy (June 6, 1944–July 25, 1945) Space compelled the omission of many passages from these volumes, and sequence and proportion demanded a considerable re-arrangement of the remainder of the text. Apart, however, from some linking sentences which are insignificant in number, this abridgement is entirely in Sir Winston’s own words. The Epilogue, now published in book form for the first time, was written by Sir Winston at the beginning of 1957. It is unabridged and reviews the period since his relinquishment of the office of Prime Minister of Great Britain on July 26, 1945. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I must record my thanks to Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall, Commodore G. R. G. Allen, and Mr. F. W. Deakin, Warden of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, for reading and criticising the early drafts of this abridgement. I, however, bear the sole responsibility for all defects and deficiencies in the present version. I am also much obliged to Mr. C. A. Butler for correcting the proofs, to my publishers on both sides of the Atlantic for their customary generosity and patience, and to many others who have given me their help, encouragement, and advice. D. K. 15 December, 1958. EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE TO THE GATHERING STORM I MUST regard these volumes as a continuation of the story of the First World War which I set out in The World Crisis, The Eastern Front, and The Aftermath. Together they cover an account of another Thirty Years War. I have followed, as in previous volumes, the method of Defoe’s Memoirs of a Cavalier, as far as I am able, in which the author hangs the chronicle and discussion of great military and political events upon the thread of the personal experiences of an individual. I am perhaps the only man who has passed through both the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office. Whereas however in the First World War I filled responsible but subordinate posts, I was in this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty’s Government. I write therefore from a different standpoint and with more authority than was possible in my earlier books. I do not describe it as history, for that belongs to another generation. But I claim with confidence that it is a contribution to history which will be of service to the future. These thirty years of action and advocacy comprise and express my life- effort, and I am content to be judged upon them. I have adhered to my rule of never criticising any measure of war or policy after the event unless I had before expressed publicly or formally my opinion or warning about it. Indeed in the afterlight I have softened many of the severities of contemporary controversy. It has given me pain to record these disagreements with so many men whom I liked or respected; but it would be wrong not to lay the lessons of the past before the future. Let no one look down on those honourable, well-meaning men whose actions are chronicled in these pages without searching his own heart, reviewing his own discharge of public duty, and applying the lessons of the past to his future conduct. It must not be supposed that I expect everybody to agree with what I say, still less that I only write what will be popular. I give my testimony according to the lights I follow. Every possible care has been taken to verify the facts; but much is constantly coming to light from the disclosure of captured documents or other revelations which may present a new aspect to the conclusions which I have revelations which may present a new aspect to the conclusions which I have drawn. One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once “the Unnecessary War.” There never was a war more easy to stop than that which has just wrecked what was left of the world from the previous struggle. The human tragedy reaches its climax in the fact that after all the exertions and sacrifices of hundreds of millions of people and the victories of the Righteous Cause we have still not found Peace or Security, and that we lie in the grip of even worse perils than those we have surmounted. It is my earnest hope that pondering upon the past may give guidance in days to come, enable a new generation to repair some of the errors of former years, and thus govern, in accordance with the needs and glory of man, the awful unfolding scene of the future. WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL Chartwell, Westerham, Kent March 1948 BOOK I MILESTONES TO DISASTER 1919–May 10, 1940 I THE FOLLIES OF THE VICTORS, 1919–1929 II PEACE AT ITS ZENITH, 1922–1931 III ADOLF HITLER IV THE LOCUST YEARS, 1931–1933 V THE DARKENING SCENE, 1934 VI AIR PARITY LOST, 1934–1935 VII CHALLENGE AND RESPONSE, 1935 VIII SANCTIONS AGAINST ITALY, 1935 IX HITLER STRIKES, 1936 X THE LOADED PAUSE, 1936–1938 XI MR. EDEN AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE. HIS RESIGNATION XII THE RAPE OF AUSTRIA, FEBRUARY 1938 XIII CZECHOSLOVAKIA XIV THE TRAGEDY OF MUNICH XV PRAGUE, ALBANIA, AND THE POLISH GUARANTEE XVI ON THE VERGE XVII TWILIGHT WAR
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