Books about World War I have made a resurgence, and the best introduction among them is The Western Front: Battle Ground and Home Front in the First World War, by T. Hunt Tooley. Despite its somewhat misleading title, The Western Front masterfully covers numerous aspect of the war, including the pre-war diplomatic crises, the growing glorification of violence in European culture, the bloody battles of the Marne, Verdun, and the Somme, wartime restrictions on civil liberties, and the war’s contributions to the growth of government.
The Great War Retold
By Ralph Raico
This article
appeared in
the Winter 2004/05 issue of The Independent Review.
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| Other Independent Review articles by Ralph Raico | |
| Fall 2008 | Was Keynes a Liberal? |
| Spring 2002 | On the Brink of World War II:Justus Doenecke’s Storm on the Horizon |
| Fall 1998 | Promised Land, Crusader State:The American Encounter with the World since 1776 |
