The Myth of a Guilty Nation

From the introduction:

Albert Jay Nock wrote one of the first American
books of WWI Revisionism—revising the received
story of why WWI began. As a lover of
history, what is particularly fascinating about his
book e Myth of a Guilty Nation is not whether
this is the best explanation for WWI. What is
fascinating is the great contrast Nock makes between
two wholly different views of the origin
of the war. What “everyone knew” about the
origins of e Great War at the time are quite
different from what “everyone knows” now.
e common American notion was that Germany
was responsible for the war. No less a
personage than David Lloyd George declared
“What are we fighting for? To defeat the most
dangerous conspiracy ever ploed against the
liberty of nations; carefully, skilfully, insidiously,
clandestinely planned in every detail, with ruthless,
cynical determination.”