Twelve American Wars

Eugene G. Windchy lays bare the tricks, errors, and secret plans that have taken the American people into avoidable wars. Who was to blame for World War I? The Germans, who attacked first? The Russians, who secretly mobilized their army? President Woodrow Wilson said Britain could have prevented the war but failed to do so. H. G. Wells, who knew the British Foreign Secretary personally, said the failure was deliberate. With nearly two thousand people on board, the Lusitania was under the control of Winston Churchill at the Admiralty. Why did he cancel the ship's promised convoy? Southern members of Congress were planning the Civil War five years before it began. President Buchanan's Secretary of War, a secessionist, armed the seceding states. The American consul in California could have acquired that territory peacefully if the Mexican War had not intervened.