These are wonderfully important books, new in the Mises Store.
The first I had never heard of but is hugely significant as the first piece of WWI revisionism to appear in English: How Diplomats Make War by Francis Neilson (1915). It is a beautifully written and well-argued case that Germany was not uniquely to blame. The secret diplomatic corp in all countries brought this disaster about. The book appeared before war censorship clamped down.
The second is a classic of Old Right literature called The Merchants of Death (1934). It was the very archetype of the rethinking about war profiteering that took place in the interwar years. The co-author was the founder of Human Events, now a conservative weekly. Here we see the real heritage of the American right.
The third takes on what is surely one of the most controversial issues in American public life: the claim that the US should not have entered World War II. The author is the great Garet Garrett, and he wrote these pieces for the Saturday Evening Post. They provide a rare glimpse into American political culture at the time and the kinds of arguments the American Firsters were making.
Are three are enormously valuable.
