Questioning Slavery Book

Guido Preparata, a professor of political economy sets out to show conclusively that Great Britain as early as the late nineteenth century had sown the seeds of World Wars I and II targeting the industrially ascendant Germany that looked, at least at the time set to topple the British empire in Eurasia. To do this, the ruling elites recruited Sir Halford Mackinder who drafted a long-term strategy to circle and destroy Germany called the Geographical Pivot of History (1904). Resorting to Machiavellianism to preempt a rival Eurasian power, the British drew France and Russia into its fold to provoke the Germans and at a later phase spurred the emergence of a far-right reactionary movement that plunged Europe in total war.

This book therefore is not really about Hitler, but the political, economic, and fraternal forces that propelled his political ascendancy. Preparata delivers a passionate tour de force particularly in the opening chapters like the preface and the introduction where he lays out the scope and sophistication of British geopolitics. His thesis represents a long overdue reappraisal of the spark that led to the most cataclysmic events in human history, pointing the finger not at Germany, but at the Anglo-American establishment instead.