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Europe's Last Summer : Who Started the Great War
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Europe's Last Summer by David Fromkin
(Author)
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- Hardcover: 368 pages ; Dimensions
(in inches): 1.24 x 9.76 x 6.52
- Publisher: Knopf; 1st edition
(March 23, 2004)
- ISBN: 0375411569
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Europe's Last Summer : Who Started the Great War in 1914? by
David Fromkin (Author)
From the author of the
best-selling A Peace to End All Peace (extraordinarily
ambitious, provocative, and vividly written- Washington
Post Book World), a dramatic reassessment of the causes of
the Great War.
The early summer of 1914 was the most glorious Europeans could
remember. But, behind the scenes, the most destructive war the
world had yet known was moving inexorably into being, a war
that would continue to resonate into the twenty-first century.
The question of how it began has long vexed
historians. Many have cited the assassination of Archduke
Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded that it was nobody's
fault. But David Fromkin, whose account is based on the latest
scholarship, provides a different answer. He makes plain that
hostilities were commenced deliberately.
In a gripping narrative that has eerie parallels to events in
our own time, Fromkin shows that not one but two wars were
waged, and that the first served as pretext for the second.
Shedding light on such current issues
as preemptive war and terrorism, he provides detailed
descriptions of the negotiations and incisive portraits of the
diplomats, generals, and rulers, the Kaiser of Germany, the
Czar of Russia, the Prime Minister of England, among other key
players. And he reveals how and why diplomacy was doomed to
fail.
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