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Winston Churchill: Hero or Fool?

New books argue that he should have let Hitler go -- and India, too.

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Reviewed by Edwin M. Yoder Jr.

Sunday, June 22, 2008

GANDHI & CHURCHILL

The Epic Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

By Arthur Herman | Bantam. 721 pp. $30

CHURCHILL, HITLER, AND "THE UNNECESSARY WAR"

How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World

By Patrick J. Buchanan | Crown. 518 pp. $29.95

BLOOD, TOIL, TEARS AND SWEAT

The Dire Warning

By John Lukacs | Basic. 147 pp. $24

DAVID & WINSTON

How the Friendship Between Churchill and Lloyd George Changed the Course of History

By Robert Lloyd George | Overlook. 303 pp. $29.95

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