Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?

Fromkin, David

ISBN 10: 037572575X / ISBN 13: 9780375725753

Edité par Vintage Books, 2005

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Seventh printing. Remainder mark on page base, edges lightly rubbed. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 2005 Trade Paperback. xi, 349 pp. The early summer of 1914 was the most glorious Europeans could remember. But, behind the scenes, the most destructive war the world had yet known was moving inexorably into being, a war that would continue to resonate into the twenty-first century. The question of how it began has long vexed historians. Many have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded that it was nobody's fault. But David Fromkin - whose account is based on the latest scholarship - provides a different answer. He makes plain that hostilities were commenced deliberately.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
• Éditeur: Vintage Books
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 037572575X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780375725753
• Reliure: Trade Paperback
• Édition: 7th Printing.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• Poids: 14 onces

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Synopsis

When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable.

In Europe’s Last Summer, David Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced deliberately. In a riveting re-creation of the run-up to war, Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. Moving deftly between diplomats, generals, and rulers across Europe, he makes the complex diplomatic negotiations accessible and immediate. Examining the actions of individuals amid larger historical forces, this is a gripping historical narrative and a dramatic reassessment of a key moment in the twentieth-century.

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David Fromkin is University Professor and Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of In the Time of the Americans, a History Book Club selection, and the national best-seller A Peace to End All Peace, which was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize and was singled out by the New York Times Book Review as one of the thirteen “Best Books of the Year” in 1989. He lives in New York City.