The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America Lusitania months after the war's devastations

months after the war's devastations had become clear

was in thrall to the Germans and to his own expansionist dreams

who wanted more out of life for women

Alessandro Giuliani

who were said to have never lost a man to capture or a foot of ground that had been taken

The Path to War: How the First World War Created Modern America Lusitania months after the war's devastationsDescription by Michael S. Neiberg Hardcover When war broke out in Europe in August of 1914, it seemed, to observers in the United States, the height of madness. The Old World and its empires were tearing each other apart, and while most Americans blamed the Germans, pitied the Belgians, and felt kinship with the Allies, they wanted no part in the carnage. Two years into war President Woodrow Wilson won re election by pledging to keep out of the