[newnhdad]

Dreadnought is a fantastic read.. My wife has recently become interested in the “war to end all wars” and I keep placing this behemoth of a book next to her phone..

[mewzilla]

Dreadnought is excellent! Also worth the read...

George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I

[henkster]

Massie’s “Dreadnought” is an excellent book. Other pretty good reads on the origins of World War 1 are David Hermmann’s “The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War” and David Fromkin’s “Europe’s Last Summer.”

Both of them pretty much lay the blame for the war at the feet of Helmuth Moltke, as he saw the war as Germany’s last chance to dominate Europe before the Franco-Russian allies surpassed Germany and a declining Austria-Hungary.

[nopardons]

I love that book too and it is, as far as I know, one of, if not THE best books on pre-WWI Europe. Haven't read it since it first came out, but I have an exceptional memory and remember a great deal of the book. Perhaps it's time I reread it, though.

BETWEEN THE WARS is another great book, that you and/or your wife might be interested in.