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Winston Churchill wrote a memoir about World War 2 , the personalities, circumstances and events leading to the outbreak of the war. His review of these events in "The Gathering Storm" begins after the end of World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles, under which the Allies and the League of Nations forced draconian war debt reparations on Germany. The post-war naivety of the victorious Allies with respect to their place in the world and their responsibility to maintain the peace, as history shows, resulted in a downward spiral of denial and political pandering, both domestically and on foreign...

If We Had Only Listened by Norma Zager “Beware the Ides of March…” fortuitous words Julius refused to heed Can man change destiny by simply heeding the advice of those who seek to warn of impending danger? Everyday we hear predictions by modern soothsayers about our world situation. We are on the verge of disaster as a nation. The world is on the brink of war, etc. etc. So we must ask ourselves, what is a soothsayer? Despite the well-known image seers conjure, in flowing robs gazing into crystals or fires, or begging for pennies in the streets, there is...

HBO’s Into the Storm, dramatizing Winston Churchill’s leadership during World War II, deserves close study from our statesmen, their spouses, and anyone with questions about the stakes and requirements of warfare. This Churchill, portrayed brilliantly by Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, is an unapologetic conservative, a tenacious dynamo whose rhetoric and resolve protected Britain and the West from submission to tyranny. We pick up Churchill where HBO’s Emmy-winning 2002 film The Gathering Storm left off. Hitler appeaser Neville Chamberlain has been discredited, and Churchill takes over as prime minister. After the successful retreat of the British Army from Dunkirk, France, Churchill...