The failure to prevent World War I the unexpected armageddon
This book refines and expands points made in the author's earlier work on the failure to prevent World War I. It provides an alternative viewpoint to the thesis of Paul Kennedy, Fritz Fischer, among others, as to the war's long-term origins. By starting its analysis with the causes and con...
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Oxon, UK
Ashgate Publishing Routledge
2014
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| Series: | Military strategy and operational art
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Table of Contents:
- The insecurity-security dialectic and the unexpected armageddon
- Origins of the Franco-Prussian War
- Global consequences of the Franco-Prussian War
- French calls for revanche and Bismarck's nightmare of coalitions
- Britain's intervention in Egypt and the threat of a continental alliance
- Bismarck's strategy and Anglo-German Alliance talks
- The failure of the Caprivi's "new course"
- 1894: the year of German alienation from England
- Fissures within the continental alliance
- The failure of Anglo-German alliance talks
- Britain's quest for new allies (1902-07)
- The Anglo-German détente and Eurasian conflicts
- The question of Alsace-Lorraine
- Stumbling into Armageddon
- Conclusions: the failure to prevent World War I