By "good" I mean a book which features a lot of information about the role America played in the war. I understand why Hoppe declares WWI as the end of civilization, but I was hoping for a book which provides more detail.
You can try e-mailing David Gordon or anyone who registered for his Mises Academy course, "The Real Causes of America's War: a Revisionist View." It looks like most of the previous forum posts are on World War II.
Albert Jay Nock, The Myth of a Guilty Nation
Niall Ferguson, The Pity of War
Thomas Fleming, The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I - Review by David Gordon: http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=256
Thanks!
I understand why Hoppe declares WWI as the end of civilization
....indeed.
For a pretty straightforeward military history of the war, see "The First World War," by John Keegan.
I'd also recomend "Dreadnought" and "Castles of Steel," by Robert K. Massie. The former is a very nice portrait of the breakdown of the balance of power in the decades leading to 1914, and the latter is specifically about the naval war between Germany and Britain