To: freepguy
Prez. Wilson wanted to stay out of the war but then Geman U-boats started to attack American merchant ships and Wilson asked for a declaration of war.
Soon after troops were being sent to France.
Suggest Barbara Tuchman’s “Guns of August”, outstanding history of WWI.
22 posted on
04/23/2011 9:15:05 PM PDT by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: count-your-change
“Suggest Barbara Tuchman’s “Guns of August”, outstanding history of WWI.”
She wrote “The Zimmerman Telegram”, also on topic.
Keegan’s “The First World War”, too.
28 posted on
04/23/2011 9:18:36 PM PDT by
4buttons
To: count-your-change
I disagree.
Wilson was a manipulative, arrogant, Anglophilic elitist who wanted us to support Great Britain against the Germans.
29 posted on
04/23/2011 9:18:53 PM PDT by
ZULU
(Lindsey Graham is a nanometrical pustule of pusillanimous putrescent excrement)
To: count-your-change
Barbara Tuchman's book is well-written but incomplete--as I recall she pretty much ignores Austria-Hungary in explaining how the war came about.
When I was a student she came to the university where I was studying and gave a talk to the history graduate students--but only the women students were allowed to attend.
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