It's gutwrenching, reading Churchill fortnight after fortnight from the beginning of 1936 saying now, it has to be now, WE HAVE TO ACT NOW. And nobody listened. Instead as Hitler and his fellow citizens went about their business, snatching this part and then that of surrounding countries, people did the thing they do so often in the presence of a bully. They do nothing and hope that it only happens to other people and not to them. And then it happens to them. Which is not to say that some people weren't okay with it happening to them.

But for those for whom it wasn't okay, the ones who did eventually turn to arms, how differently it might have all panned out if only people hadn't just read Churchill, but listened to him.

Anyway, I've scarcely started this and I hope I can finish it. But it is utterly harrowing. ( )

It's gutwrenching, reading Churchill fortnight after fortnight from the beginning of 1936 saying now, it has to be now, WE HAVE TO ACT NOW. And nobody listened. Instead as Hitler and his fellow citizens went about their business, snatching this part and then that of surrounding countries, people did the thing they do so often in the presence of a bully. They do nothing and hope that it only happens to other people and not to them. And then it happens to them. Which is not to say that some people weren't okay with it happening to them.

But for those for whom it wasn't okay, the ones who did eventually turn to arms, how differently it might have all panned out if only people hadn't just read Churchill, but listened to him.

Anyway, I've scarcely started this and I hope I can finish it. But it is utterly harrowing. ( )

It's gutwrenching, reading Churchill fortnight after fortnight from the beginning of 1936 saying now, it has to be now, WE HAVE TO ACT NOW. And nobody listened. Instead as Hitler and his fellow citizens went about their business, snatching this part and then that of surrounding countries, people did the thing they do so often in the presence of a bully. They do nothing and hope that it only happens to other people and not to them. And then it happens to them. Which is not to say that some people weren't okay with it happening to them.

But for those for whom it wasn't okay, the ones who did eventually turn to arms, how differently it might have all panned out if only people hadn't just read Churchill, but listened to him.

Anyway, I've scarcely started this and I hope I can finish it. But it is utterly harrowing. ( )