Churchill : the prophetic statesman / James C. Humes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-224) and index.

INTRODUCTION -- Churchill as prophet -- PART I. WORLD WAR I -- Prescient as a schoolboy -- Warnings from a young MP -- A fateful memorandum -- Opposing the sanguine majority -- PART II. MODERN MILITARY WEAPONS -- Predicting the age of air power -- Churchill develops the tank -- Foreseeing the invention of nuclear weapons -- The modern oil crisis predicted -- PART III. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS -- A balance between capitalism and socialism -- Unmasking socialism -- Postwar technophobia -- PART IV. THE AGE OF TOTALITARIAN IDEOLOGIES -- An ominous novel -- Misgivings about the Middle East -- "It is not a creed, it is a pestilence" -- A latter-day Moses -- The Indian genocide predicted -- PART V. WORLD WAR II -- The Nazi menace -- The Nazi-Soviet pact stuns the world -- Churchill is certain of victory -- A rare miss -- Dreams of defeat -- PART VI. THE COLD WAR -- The Iron Curtain warning -- Bloodshed averted -- The "United States of Europe" -- The end of the Cold War -- "Parley at the summit" -- Vindicated misgivings -- Summing up.

James C. Humes reveals shocking predictions made by Britain's most famous prime minister. Churchill didn't need a crystal ball to tell the future. Using his skills as a historian, he studied patterns of the past to make his eerily accurate forecasts, including the rise of European fascism, the fall of the Iron Curtain, and the exact day of his own death as he entered his final years.