Table of Contents
Foreword xi
Introduction: Churchill as Prophet 1
Part I World War I
Chapter 1 Prescient as a Schoolboy 15
Chapter 2 Warnings from a Young MP 21
Chapter 3 A Fateful Memorandum 29
Chapter 4 Opposing the Sanguine Majority 35
Part II Modern Military Weapons
Chapter 5 Predicting the Age of Air Power 43
Chapter 6 Churchill Develops the Tank 49
Chapter 7 Foreseeing the Invention of Nuclear Weapons 53
Chapter 8 The Modern Oil Crisis Predicted 61
Part III Domestic Affairs
Chapter 9 A Balance between Capitalism and Socialism 67
Chapter 10 Unmasking Socialism 73
Chapter 11 Postwar Technophobia 79
Part IV The Age of Totalitarian Ideologies
Chapter 12 An Ominous Novel 87
Chapter 13 Misgivings about the Middle East 93
Chapter 14 "It Is Not a Creed; It Is a Pestilence" 99
Chapter 15 A Latter-Day Moses 103
Chapter 16 The Indian Genocide Predicted 107
Part V World War II
Chapter 17 The Nazi Menace 117
Chapter 18 The Nazi-Soviet Pact Stuns the World 135
Chapter 19 Churchill Is Certain of Victory 145
Chapter 20 A Rare Miss 151
Chapter 21 Dreams of Defeat 161
Part VI The Cold War
Chapter 22 The Iron Curtain Warning 173
Chapter 23 Bloodshed Averted 185
Chapter 24 The "United States of Europe" 191
Chapter 25 The End of the Cold War 199
Chapter 26 "Parley at the Summit" 203
Chapter 27 Vindicated Misgivings 209
Chapter 28 Summing Up 215
Acknowledgments 219
Notes 221
Index 225
