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Some books not only never grow old, they instead grow more relevant to the present day and indeed, even more pressing.

One such book is The Gathering Storm, the first volume of Winston Churchill’s six-volume history of the Second World War.

In its preface, Churchill begins by telling the reader that he "must regard these volumes as a continuation of the story of the First World War which I set out in The World Crisis, The Eastern Front, and The Aftermath."

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"Together," he continues, "they will cover an account of another Thirty Years War."

Churchill does not relate that the first Thirty Years War raged in Central Europe from 1618 until

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