Some books not only get old, they become more relevant for the current day and indeed even more urgent.
Such a book is ‘The Gathering Storm’, the first part of the six-volume history of Winston Churchill of the Second World War.
In his preface, Churchill starts with the reader that he “should consider these parts as a continuation of the story of the First World War that I told in the world crisis, the eastern front and the aftermath.”
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“Together,” he continues, “they will deal with a report of another thirty years of war.”
Churchill does not say that the first thirty years of war in Central Europe raged from 1618 to 1648 and claimed to 8 million lives. Many classify that conflict as a religious war, others a civil war, and the most classify it nothing at all because they have no knowledge of it. But it destroyed Europe so thoroughly that the comparisons of beggars … to the Titanic wrestings of the 20th century.
One man had an impressive picture of both conflicts from 1914 to 1945 – Churchill. He was part of the highest councils of Great Britain for all except short periods of both wars. In the first Wold War, Churchill was in the beginning the civilian head of the enormous fleet of the United Kingdom. With the exception of his six months in the Front-Line trenches as a lieutenant colonel of Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Westfront, Churchill held high offices through the war and a decade thereafter.
He was exiled by his own political party at the political wilderness in 1929 and would stay there for a decade, during the rise of Hitler. For minor reasons, Churchill was banned by small rivals during the 1930s until finally, when Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, when Prime Minister of Great -Britain, Neville Chamberlain, asked the big man to return to the office.
Chamberlain was the first lord of Admiralty in that fatal September 1939, in the aftermath of the German invasion of Poland, the same position he had held at the beginning of the First World War. Chamberlain, the architect of Hitler’s disastrous policy, had ignored Churchill’s years of warnings about the intentions of ‘Corporal Hitler’. Churchill returned to a position of power when Hitler threw through Poland and prepared for an attack on France. However, it was only on May 10, 1940, when the armies of France melted away and the British expedition forces withdrew in the direction of Dunkirk, that Chamberlain resigned the function of prime minister as the parliament and people of the country his wrath on everyone associated with the failed policy of reconciliation.
Churchill was the only serious choice to rally a reeling nation, and he did just that for five years, assuming supreme command of Britain’s war effort from May 10, 1940, Until an Election after the allies’ Victory in Europe, to His Party to Hiss Party party Bench on July 26, 1945. That defeat at the Polls Allowed Him the Time to Write Masterful History, and to Do So With The Cooperation of a partisan government that was against his policy, but aware of the enormous value that such a history would have as the Cold War.
Five of the six parts of its history of the Second World War mainly focus on the war from the time that Churchill became prime minister and at the same time Minister of Defense.
But the first part assesses the critical years from 1919 until the fall of France in the spring of 1940 and Churchill’s Rise to Leadership. The greatest man of the century was 65 when he took over a disastrous situation, one that he had warned for ten years. He was 70 when the voters drove him off, and 76 when he led his party to victory and became prime minister, and served in that office until he was 80.
Churchill wrote 43 books that include 72 parts, and with the risk of disturbing Churchill -scholars, I think “The Gathering Storm” is the most important of all its many major works, at least for readers in 2025 (the scholars will point to his magisterial “Marlborough” as his greatest literary performance, but I hold with my Pick.)
A hundred years ago – in 1925 – had Churchill written an essay to which he refers in chapter 3 of ‘The Gathering Storm’, a column that asked ‘, perhaps not a bomb that is no greater than an orange that has a secret power to destroy a whole block building – no, to concentrate the power of a thousand tones of Cordiet and a town? “
In the same column he warned that “[a]S for poison gas and chemical warfare in all its forms, only the first chapter is written in a terrible book. ”
The great leader of countries at war was therefore also a prophet of the terrible future of the war, and thus eloquently a writer that he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
Because of his chair of the center of the first row to the rise of the Nazis, although without power to do something except Orate, detailed, unsuggoned warnings of the reasons for parliament, because of his leading role in the dramas of the actual fight of the last century and because of his gift for writing, I order every serious person and read it.
I have now started again to discuss it in the air with Dr. Larry Arnn, the President of Hillsdale College, and the equal of every Churchill learner who lives. The first of our conversations about “The Gathering Storm” is here. Second here. Dr. Arnn can be found as good guide, but his comments are a prompt, not a summary. This is a book that you should read.
Because “The Gathering Storm” is about today when around 1919-1940, about the innocence and indifference of a country worn by war and is doing a lot to be done with it, to refuse to believe that war may not be over for two decades.
It is the testimony of a prophet about ignored prophecies, and about the disaster that followed that did not have to happen at all.
The United States did not fall into complacency after the Second World War, but gathered his strength and rebuilt the West while he kept the Soviet Union at a distance. It took a holiday from history in the nineties and 90s was the price. President George W. Bush supervised the reconstruction and commitment of the American military and victory was reached against major costs in both Afghanistan and Iraq, to ​​be thrown away by President Joe Biden in the former copy and President Barack Obama in the latter. Now the entire Democratic party has succumbed to a sort of thin disguised pacifism wrapped in a ridiculous awake girl, and the only daring decision by President Donald Trump to destroy the nuclear program of Iran, stopped a theocracy managed by fanatics managed by the acquisition of an orange “bomb the greatest of the greatest of the greatest of the greatest of the greatest of the greatest.
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Now President Trump is trying to rebuild both the peace in Central Europe and our hollowed-out army. Unbelievable, much of legacy media seems to hope that he will fail in the earlier effort, otherwise his position in history would even be protected against the libels of the TDS connected.
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If you have doubts about the urgent need for him to succeed and that the Gop has control over the congress for the near future, read “The Gathering Storm” and keep the comments of Dr. Arnn Bij. The world is no less dangerous, only. A third world war would be the first and second, because those two wars were the thirty years of war: destruction and death on an exponential scale without Marshall plan available after the war to rebuild. Every country would swing. The battlefields of Ukraine tell us that.
If you can’t get past your aversion to the president, you should be the first in line in the bookstore on Amazon used to pick up the volume. It can free up your head. It is not time for absurd policy and crazy alarms about “fascism” at home. There are totalitarians enough abroad who wish us all badly, whether we are “red” or “blue”. Americans should be concerned about the new “gathering storm” and work together to prevent this, not repeat the mistakes of Great Britain in the “peace” between the world wars of the 20th century.
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