IndieReader’s list of the year’s Best Non-Fiction Books gives high praise to award-winning World War One history by Burton Yale Pines
PRLog - Dec. 18, 2014 - NEW YORK -- IndieReader, the influential web-based book review site for “discriminating book-lovers” looking for books that are “genuine, unique and outside the mainstream,” has named the prize-winning history America’s Greatest Blunder: The Fateful Decision to Enter World War One one of 2014's best books. Says IndieReader: America’s Greatest Blunder is a “disturbing argument that America, by entering World War I, set in motion a train of events that caused much of the death and destruction of the 20th century.”
America’s Greatest Blunder, by veteran journalist Burton Yale Pines, tells the tale of how and why America entered World War One, how America won the war and why doing so was a huge mistake. The Pines book already has won more than a dozen awards, including, recently, the Silver Medal in History from the Military Writers Society of America.
In a November review of the book on the widely-read Roads to the Great War website, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Professor Dennis Linton wrote that “this is a book that should be read this year” and is “one of the finest overviews of the War and America’s entry into it, and the effects of our entry on its outcome.” The Pines’ book, added Linton, is “well-researched and easy to read” and “convincingly illustrates the U.S. decision to enter the Great War as one of history’s rare pivot points.”
In addition to the Military Writers Society Silver Medal, America’s Greatest Blunder has been named “Winner in Military History” by USA Best Book Awards, “Best Book in U.S. History” by the Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards, “Winner in Military History” by International Book Awards, “Gold Medal Winner in Current Events” and “Silver Medal Winner in History” by eLit Awards and “Silver Medal in History” by Readers Favorite Annual Book Awards.
Says Pines: “Interest in World War One among all readers has mounted rapidly with the arrival of the centenary of the war’s August 1914 outbreak. And as tensions continue in Ukraine, the South China Sea and elsewhere, policymakers and analysts are looking to the build-up to World War One as a cautionary example.”
America’s Greatest Blunder’s provocative central argument is that America made a huge mistake by entering a war that it had no reason to join. It broke the Western Front’s battlefield stalemate and won the war, thus allowing Britain and France to impose their draconian peace on Germany. Had America not entered the war, writes Pines, there would have been a peace of compromise -- and thus “no punishing Versailles peace treaty, no reparations, no humiliation of Germany, no German toxic calls for revenge and therefore no Hitler, no World War Two and likely no Cold War.” Concludes Pines: “It indeed was America’s greatest blunder of the 20th Century.”
Publishers Weekly calls America’s Greatest Blunder "An epic exercise in historical speculation...Detailed and thought-provoking” Kirkus Reviews says the book is “A carefully and winningly argued case against military adventurism.” Foreword Clarion Reviews says the book is “a good primer for anyone who seeks to understand how a nation can be dragged into war.”
Availability
America’s Greatest Blunder” is available in hardcover, paperback and e-formats at www.Amazon.com, www.BN.com, the Apple iBooks store, www.kobo.com and at bookstores.
The Author
Burton Yale Pines, a former University of Wisconsin (Madison) history instructor, Time Magazine correspondent and editor and onetime Washington think-tank executive, is the author of Back to Basics (1982) and Out of Focus (1993). He grew up in Chicago, attended Nicholas Senn High School and is a three-time winner of the New York Newspaper Guild’s “Page One Award for Excellence in Journalism.”
The book’s Amazon page is at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0989148734
Its website is: www.AmericasGreatestBlunder.com
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