The war that ended peace how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War
The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed millions of its men, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and...
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Profile Books
2013
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Table of 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.