In a hotel in Munich Hitler planned to meet a travelling Churchill. He decided against it and the men who pitted their wits against missed the opportunity to shake the others hand and look the other in the eye. For years they thought about each other every day, they pitted their wits yet they never met.
Churchill had an advantage, however, a book Mein Kampf where Hitler revealed his most personal views and opinions. Mr Beever has a huge advance to write on the second world war, he is a talented writer but the great man himself wrote several massive tomes and should be part of any reading of the period. Who could know it better, who could? He may be biased but surely his wisdom would recompense. So a man that fought them with his words, with a few whiskies believed that democracy was partly to blame for the commencement of the 2WW. The leaders had to appease their people and they did this by enforcing rash conditions on Germany. As we face a rising threat from Asia we should not forget the limitations of democracy as so clearly expressed by a great man.
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