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The war that ended peace : how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War / Margaret MacMillan

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Profile Books, 2014Description: xxxi, 699 p. : ill. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781846682735
  • 1846682738
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • D 511 M167w 2014
Contents:
Introduction : War or peace? -- Europe in 1900 -- Great Britain and splendid isolation -- 'Woe to the country that has a child for king!' : Wilhelm II and Germany -- Weltpolitik : Germany's place on the world stage -- Dreadnought : the Anglo-German naval rivalry -- Unlikely friends : the Entente Cordiale between France and Britain -- The bear and the whale : Russia and Great Britain -- The loyalty of the Nibelungs : the dual alliance of Austria-Hungary and Germany -- What were they thinking? : hopes, fears, ideas, and unspoken assumptions -- Dreaming of peace -- Thinking about war -- Making the plans -- The crises start : Germany, France, and Morocco -- The Bosnian crisis : confrontation between Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Balkans -- 1911 : the year of discords : Morocco again -- The first Balkan wars -- Preparing for war or peace : Europe's last months of peace -- Assassination at Sarajevo -- The end of the concert of Europe : Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia -- Turning out the lights : Europe's last week of peace -- Epilogue : war.
Abstract: Why, after a century of extraordinary progress, did Europe march into a conflict which killed missions of its men, bled its economies dry, left three empires in rubble, and fatally undermined its dominance of the world? In [this book], ... historian Margaret MacMillan sketches the vast transformations which Europe underwent in the years before the Great War and brings to life the key individuals to provide a definitive account of how a peaceful continent descended into a chaos that was far from inevitable
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Long-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014 and long-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.

Originally published in the United States as: The war that ended peace : the road to 1914. New York : Random House, 2013.

Previously published in Great Britain in 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 636 - 654) and index.

Introduction : War or peace? -- Europe in 1900 -- Great Britain and splendid isolation -- 'Woe to the country that has a child for king!' : Wilhelm II and Germany -- Weltpolitik : Germany's place on the world stage -- Dreadnought : the Anglo-German naval rivalry -- Unlikely friends : the Entente Cordiale between France and Britain -- The bear and the whale : Russia and Great Britain -- The loyalty of the Nibelungs : the dual alliance of Austria-Hungary and Germany -- What were they thinking? : hopes, fears, ideas, and unspoken assumptions -- Dreaming of peace -- Thinking about war -- Making the plans -- The crises start : Germany, France, and Morocco -- The Bosnian crisis : confrontation between Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Balkans -- 1911 : the year of discords : Morocco again -- The first Balkan wars -- Preparing for war or peace : Europe's last months of peace -- Assassination at Sarajevo -- The end of the concert of Europe : Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia -- Turning out the lights : Europe's last week of peace -- Epilogue : war.

Why, after a century of extraordinary progress, did Europe march into a conflict which killed missions of its men, bled its economies dry, left three empires in rubble, and fatally undermined its dominance of the world? In [this book], ... historian Margaret MacMillan sketches the vast transformations which Europe underwent in the years before the Great War and brings to life the key individuals to provide a definitive account of how a peaceful continent descended into a chaos that was far from inevitable

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