Introduction: Over There
Chapter One: A Game of Kings
Chapter Two: Images of the Warring Countries
Chapter Three: Americans Respond to the War
Chapter Four: The Lusitania
Chapter Five: Rising Tensions and Spy Scandals
Chapter Six: Mexico, Germany, and the Global Threat
Chapter Seven: The Sussex Pledge and the Continental Plan
Chapter Eight: Submarine Warfare and the Zimmermann Telegram
Conclusion: To War
Michael S. Neiberg is the inaugural Chair of War Studies in the
Department of National Security and Strategy at the United States
Army War College. His published work specializes on the First and
Second World Wars, notably the American and French experiences. He
is the author of many books, including Dance of the Furies: Europe
and the Outbreak of World War I and Potsdam: The End of World War
II and the Remaking of Europe. He is
currently based in Pennsylvania.
"Considering the importance of America's response to the challenges
presented by the First World War, there is-not surprisingly-an
extensive body of literature on the American experience in the
years leading up to the declaration of war in April 1917. Rarely,
if ever, has this story been told as well as in Michael S.
Neiberg's The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern
America [A] study that is eminently readable, impressively
researched,
and remarkably thorough in its treatment of the various issues and
challenges Americans wrestled with as they found it increasingly
difficult, and then finally impossible, to believe the nation's
interests
would be best served by remaining out of the war."--Ethan S.
Rafuse, Army History
"Michael Neiberg's The Path to War traces the U.S.'s journey from
detached observer to fully-committed participant in the First World
War. Neiberg does this with great skill and clarity. The Path to
War will become essential reading for those interested in the First
World War and how it shaped the USA. It makes an invaluable
contribution to a pivotal event in U.S. history."--Glyn Harper,
Professor of War Studies, Massey University, New Zealand
"Michael Neiberg has established a deserved reputation as one of
the premier US-based historians of World War I, and his latest book
does not disappoint. Following on from The Dance of the Furies, his
magisterial book on European peoples in 1914, The Path to War gives
a challenging and intellectually exciting account of how and why
America and its people went to war three years later."--Gary
Sheffield PhD, University of Wolverhampton, UK
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