1914 by Margaret MacMillan
The Year the World Ended
Drawing on diplomatic records, memoirs and eyewitness accounts, the book reconstructs the July Crisis and the tangled alliances, rivalries, and misjudgments that propelled Europe into war in 1914. It profiles the leaders, military officers and diplomats whose decisions, fears and misperceptions—ranging from nationalist fervour and imperial competition to rigid mobilization timetables—turned a regional flashpoint into a continent-wide catastrophe. Interweaving political analysis with human stories, it shows how contingency, error and deliberate choice combined to shatter old certainties and devastate a generation.
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- 2013
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