Coming of the First World War

Zusatztext ... full of fresh ideas and mostly elegantly and eloquently written. It fully justifies the editors" claim to have contributed something new and significant by concentrating ... upon the actual decisions of politicians and their immediate background in the public opinion and popular mood of those sultry July days. Klappentext The origins of the first World War have created a heated debate and intensive controversy from the very beginning, in August 1914, until the present day. No other outbreak of the war has attracted the attention of so many historians, journalists, writers of memoirs, and military authors. Zusammenfassung Based on public lectures given in Oxford, this book contributes to one of the most fundamental debates in modern European history - that concerning the conflict which debilitated and transformed Europe between 1914 and 1918. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Europe on the eve of the First World War; The Balkans in the outbreak of the First World War; The Habsburg monarchy and the coming of the war; Russia and the outbreak of the First World War; Germany and the origins of the First World War; The coming of the First World War: France; Britain enters the war; Bibliography; Index

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• Authors: R. J. W. (Fellow Evans, R. J. W. Strandmann Evans, R.j.w. Strandmann Evans
• Assisted by: R. J. Evans (Editor), R. J. W. Evans (Editor), Evans R. J. W. (Editor), Hartmut Pogge von Strandmann (Editor), Hartmut P. von Strandmann (Editor), Hartmut P. Von Strandmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.09.1990
• EAN: 9780198228417
• ISBN: 978-0-19-822841-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; First World War, HISTORY / World, General & world history, General and world history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I