Harte, John Churchill's Enemies 1927-1940

A report on how Churchill's early struggles against fascism and extremism shaped modern geopolitics. The book describes the greatest challenges Winston Churchill faced between 1929 and 1939, when he was not in office. These included Benito Mussolini's rise to dictatorship in Italy and the adoption of his fascist system by the Nazi Party in Germany. It also explains the significance of Hitler's collaboration with the Mufti of Jerusalem in the Middle East, who spread Nazi ideology in Jerusalem, Gaza and Lebanon and how the two European dictators destroyed democracy step by step. This account of the first half of Winston Churchill's life aims to help readers understand how today's global crisis began. The Cairo Conference was the West's first attempt to bring the Arab world into the 20th century by resolving the Middle East crisis in 1921. It also shows how Churchill's experiences in a changing world, with all its complexities, paradoxes and ambiguities, transformed him from an ambitious young politician into an older statesman and how his decisions continue to influence world politics to this day.