re: WW1 history buffs: Good book for the library

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He argues that Germany had no global war aims, that she would have certainly won the war without first British, then American intervention, but would have done little more than establish the same type of European trade union that modern Germany is rapidly creating. And given what Britain gave up, in terms of Empire, lives, and economic retardation, the war must therefore be seen as a complete waste in British terms.

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On Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast, he references a few British economists who reiterated those exact points at that moment in history, and their argument was essentially "hey, our economy is booming and we're all rich due to globalization -- why are we flushing all of that down the toilet?"