What are some excellent war/foreign policy books unbiased and revisionist in nature?
I have read Fleming, Chalmers Johnson, DiLorenzo, John V. Denson, Kinzer, the author of Day of Deceit (Stinnett? the name escapes me), Paul, among others…any other quality books along these lines?
For years, I entertained the idea of getting my PhD in history but over the last few years found libertarianism and now I really want to pursue it and turn my PhD cohort upside down.
All the authors you have named are excellent. But I was wondering if anyone knows of any British libertarian authors who were non-interventionist? I realize there is Richard Cobden, but anyone else? It seems that Americans dominate the field, but as an Australian I want to read more from other countries.
I am also trying to apply to PhD programs for history. I would add to your list Thomas Woods’ work: We Who Dared to Say No to War. A great collection of anti-war literature and speeches from the left and right. For basic libetarian theory towards foreign policy and war I would add Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto which has a specific chapter on war and foreign policy and how libertarians should view it.
I’ll give you a list of some books that I have read and books that I would like to read:
How the Far East Was Lost: American Policy and Creation of Communist China by Anthony Kubek
Cold War Diplomacy: American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960 by Norman A. Graebner
The Hidden History of the Cold War by I.F. Stone
Perpetual War, for Perpetual peace edited by Harry Elmer Barnes
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War by Patrick J. Buchanan
The Failure of America’s Foreign Wars Richard M. Ebeling
Revisionist Viewpoints: Essays in a Historical Dissident Tradition James J. Martin
Devil’s Game: How the U.S Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam(American Empire Project) by Robert Dreyfuss
Wilson’s War: How Woodrow Wilson’s Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, and World War Two by Jim Powell
War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan,Kashmir, and Tibet by Eric Margolis
Pearl Harbor: The Story of Secret War by Charles Austin Beard
The Pentagon Papers(it’s long, though)(It’s a Department of Defense report)
If you read this, you pretty much know it all, there’s a lot more but that’s a good portion of it. Let’s not forget that these books and essays could reiterate certain points, but they’re great.
Freda Utley’s The High Cost of Vengeance is interesting.