I’ve recently finished a book titled ‘The Miracle Of Freedom 7 Tipping Points that Saved the World’ by Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart and found it a truly interesting and fascinating quick read. I just wished history in school would have been as interesting. I have never read any of Will & Ariel Durant’s work but might take a peek at some of their works now and see if it is as interesting.
In The 7 Tipping points their first tipping point was the defeat of the Assyrians in their quest to destroy the kingdom of Judah. I enjoyed reading the first tipping point and found this interesting and enlightening especially for one without any reading of ancient history. I wasn’t aware that the philosophic predecessors of Christianity and Islam came from Judaism and it was only with Christianity that the threads and concepts of freedom and democracy slowly weaved its way through history and surviving to today.
I found the following tipping points equally as interesting and didn’t think the last tipping point about the Battle of Britain could be as interesting reading as the previous six. Was I wrong!
World War II history buffs are probably well aware of this time period of the Second World War prior to the US entry.
During that period Hitler had the superior air power and England was under strong pacifist forces thinking that Hitler was a good thing in that it was a counter force to their fears of the communist Russian threat. At that time a popular and dangerous military theory was that fighter aircraft were no longer a necessity and that the bomber would always get through. Therefore bombers were more important than fighters. Fortunately the fellow commanding the RAF Fighter Command did not buy into that notion.
The book goes on about Radar, Spitfires and Hurricanes came into the effort and how the young pilots were quickly trained and sent into battle. Saying how some came from training and were put into planes and sent into battle and died before they were able to get their bags unpacked or for the others ever got to know their names. It also goes into other deceptions used that held off the invasion.
The 7th point points out how that if the British had been defeated in Sept 1940, prior to the US entry, then Britain as a staging point for the Normandy invasion would not have been possible.
Anyhow this is not that heavy of a read and thought some of you would also find this book as interesting as I did. If you do read it I would enjoy hearing your thoughts on this book.
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” Ayn Rand