Leading World War One blog to feature rave review of Burton Yale Pines’ award-winning “America’s Greatest Blunder: The Fateful Decision to Enter World War One”
PRLog - Oct. 9, 2014 - NEW YORK -- “Roads to the Great War,” a top Internet site for World War One history and the events marking the war’s centenary, on October 14 will publish its review of America’s Greatest Blunder: The Fateful Decision to Enter World War One. This highly-praised history, by veteran journalist Burton Yale Pines, tells the tale of how and why America declared war on Germany, how America won World War One and why entering the war was a huge mistake. The book already has won more than a dozen awards, including last month’s "Silver Medal in History" from the Military Writers Society of America.
In reviewing the Pines book for “Roads to the Great War,” U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Assistant Professor Dennis Linton, a U.S. Army retired Colonel, tells readers that “this is a book that should be read this year, if for nothing more than as one of the finest overviews of the War and America’s entry into it, and the effects of our entry on its outcome.” Col. Linton praises America’s Greatest Blunder as “well-researched and easy to read,” adding that “the author convincingly illustrates the U.S. decision to enter the Great War as one of history’s rare pivot points.”
The October 14 review will appear on http://roadstothegreatwar-ww1.blogspot.com. The “Roads to the Great War Blog” is published by World War One expert Mike Hanlon, Editor/Publisher at www.Worldwar1.com and a top organizer and guide of World War One battlefield tours.
In addition to receiving the recent “Silver Medal in History,” 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.
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. The two million Doughboys America sent to France 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, argues the book, the exhausted opposing sides would have had to come to a peace of compromise. There would have be no victor, no vanquished, no punishing Versailles Treaty and thus no German demands for revenge, no Hitler, no World War Two and likely no Cold War.
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 flare in Ukraine, the South China Sea, Iraq/Syria and elsewhere, policymakers and analysts are looking to the build-up to World War One as a cautionary example.”
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.”
Contact
Burton Yale Pines
greatestblunder@gmail.com
The book’s Amazon page is at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0989148734
The book’s website is: www.AmericasGreatestBlunder.com
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