By reading the book we start to see just how

differently people viewed the origin of the war

at the time, especially in the U.S. Since WWI
ii A L B E R T J AY N O C K
the revisionists won many of the bales, WWI is
usually viewed today more as a tragedy, a point-
less disaster, the effect of secret diplomacy, gen-
eral militarism, etc. e reader today is there-
fore unaware of how many Americans under-
stood the war as the sole outcome of a German
conspiracy for plunder. While today we know
Europe was an armed camp, the pro-allied pro-
paganda claimed that Europe was unprepared
for war. Nock makes the reader aware of the
great extent to which the allied politicians con-
tinually lied to blame Germany and justify the
war, or at least told stories with no regard for
the truth. No wonder Hitler found British pro-
paganda so inspiring. In fact the story at the
time made it sound like Germany was trying to
over-run Europe the way Hitler temporarily did
a few decades later