Human Smoke http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&printsec=frontcover http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&printsec=f... Churchill, Hitler, a

Human Smoke http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&printsec=frontcover http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&printsec=f... Churchill, Hitler, and "the unnecessary war": how Britain lost its empire and the West lost the world http://books.google.com/books?id=PYESsQRyIIMC&printsec=frontcover http://books.google.com/books?id=PYESsQRyIIMC&printsec=f... Both books are iconoclastic looks at how WWII came to be, and whether it was truly a "just" war. The second is by Pat Buchanan, but neither book is crazy or racist. Both are extremely well-researched and documented. Pat Buchanan's book is explicitly in response to the "just war" trope which was used to justify the US occupation of Iraq, but I think I see the same motivation in Human Smoke. The most interesting single tidbit I learned from the two books was that Roosevelt was an anti-semite: http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q=harvard&f=false http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&lpg=PP1&#3... (I looked that vignette up in Morgenthau's memoirs. The story he tells there was meant to justify to the younger Morgenthau Roosevelt's policy of restricting emigration to the US by Jewish refugees.)