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Book Description Condition: New. The dramatic step-by-step account of how the assassination of an Austrian archduke in the Balkans led to the cataclysm of the First World War over five fateful weeks in the summer of 1914. Num Pages: 512 pages, 55 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBLW; HBW; HBWN; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612. . 2017. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780199665396
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Book Description Condition: New. The dramatic step-by-step account of how the assassination of an Austrian archduke in the Balkans led to the cataclysm of the First World War over five fateful weeks in the summer of 1914. Num Pages: 512 pages, 55 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJF; HBLW; HBW; HBWN; JPS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 612. . 2017. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780199665396
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war. Much time and ink has been spent ever since trying to identify the 'guilty' person or state responsible, or alternatively attempting to explain the underlying forces that 'inevitably' led to war in 1914. Unsatisfied with these explanations, Gordon Martel now goes back to the contemporarydiplomatic, military, and political records to investigate the twists and turns of the crisis afresh, with the aim of establishing just how the catastrophe really unfurled. What emergesis the story of a terrible, unnecessary tragedy - one that can be understood only by retracing the steps taken by those who went down the road to war. With each passing day, we see how the personalities of leading figures such as Kaiser Wilhelm II, the Emperor Franz Joseph, Tsar Nicholas II, Sir Edward Grey, and Raymond Poincare were central to the unfolding crisis, how their hopes and fears intersected as events unfolded, and how each new decision produced a response that complicated orescalated matters to the point where they became almost impossible to contain.Devoting a chapter to each day of the infamous 'July Crisis', this gripping step by step account of thedescent to war makes clear just how little the conflict was in fact premeditated, preordained, or even predictable. Almost every day it seemed possible that the crisis could be settled as so many had been over the previous decade; almost every day there was a new suggestion that gave statesmen hope that war could be avoided without abandoning vital interests. And yet, as the last month of peace ebbed away, the actions and reactions of the Great Powers disastrouslyescalated the situation. So much so that, by the beginning of August, what might have remained a minor Balkan problem had turned into the cataclysm of the First World War. The dramatic step-by-step account of how the assassination of an Austrian archduke in the Balkans led to the cataclysm of the First World War over five fateful weeks in the summer of 1914. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780199665396
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