(One of a series of daily posts about Winston S. Churchill.)
Are World Wars I and II separate wars or a continuation of a thirty year war that began in 1914 and ended in 1945, with an interruption in fighting from 1918 and 1939 that many people mistook for peace?
Historians still argue the question.
Churchill had no doubt about his answer. He gave it in the first paragraph of the preface to the first of his multi-volume history, The Second World War.:
I must regard these volumes of The Second World War as a continuation of the story of the First World War which I set out in the The World Crisis, The Eastern Front, and The Aftermath. Together, if the present work is completed, they will cover an account of another Thirty Years' War._________________________________________________________________
Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: The Gathering Storm. (p. iii)
1 comments:
Wonder what Winston would have to say about the fruits of the failed post-colonial period?
I'm talking, of course, about Islamo-fascism.
-AC
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