Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth, yet 1914 did. The story of the outbreak of World War I. In July of 1914, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain, and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems, and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history. In the long run, the events of 1914 set the world on the path toward the Russian Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles, ...
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Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth, yet 1914 did. The story of the outbreak of World War I. In July of 1914, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain, and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems, and set the course for the bloodiest century in human history. In the long run, the events of 1914 set the world on the path toward the Russian Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles, the rise of Nazism, and the Cold War. Here, award-winning historian Paul Ham tells the story of the outbreak of WWI from German, British, French, Austria-Hungarian, Russian, and Serbian perspectives. Along the way, he debunks several stubborn myths. European leaders, for example, did not stumble or "sleepwalk" into war. They fully understood that a small conflict in the Balkans--the tinderbox at the heart of the continent--could spark a European war. Yet they carried on. This book seeks to answer the most vexing question of the 20th century: Why did European governments decide to condemn the best part of a generation of young men to the trenches and four years of slaughter, during which 8.5 million would die?
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Add this copy of 1914. the Year the World Ended to cart. $21.40, very good condition, Sold by Lawrence Jones rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Nobby Beach, QLD, AUSTRALIA, published 2013 by William Heinemann.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. xxix, 704pp, index, bibliography, notes/references, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or boards in jacket. Page edges tanned. In 1914 European leaders chose war and brought about the death of the old world-here we get a clear sense of what happened and why.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 9781864711424. Size: 9"-10" Tall. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; World History; ISBN: 1864711426. ISBN/EAN: 9781864711424. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 44263.
Add this copy of 1914: the Year the World Ended to cart. $113.67, new condition, Sold by Just one more Chapter, ships from Miramar, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Penguin Random House Australia.
