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Egremont, Max

 
9781911187950: World War One: The most catastrophic event in 20th century European history (All you need to know)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1911187953 ISBN 13: 9781911187950
Verlag: Quarto Publishing Plc, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

For many, before 1914, a huge European war had seemed impossible. Conflicts in the Balkans flared up yet stayed contained. The Belgian historian Henri Pirenne wrote to a friend in December 1905: “Do you really believe in the possibility of a war? For me it is impossible to have the least fear in that regard.” In March 1912, the British peer Lord Esher – an authority on defence matters – told an audience of Britain’s senior Generals that war “becomes every day more difficult and improbable”. After all, what could be gained by war? In 1909, the British writer Norman Angell claimed that with the increasing interdependence of nations war could not benefit the victor. All participating countries would be impoverished; the idea of victory was a “great illusion”.
In this short guide Max Egremont looks at controversies which have raged over the years. What caused the war? Who should be blamed for its outbreak? Should Britain have joined in and, after it did, were its soldiers really, as has been claimed, “lions led by donkeys”? What was America’s role? And was the final peace settlement as fair and sensible as possible in the circumstances or, by humiliating Germany, did the Allies pave the way to a Second World War, a truly global conflict which turned out to be even bloodier and more destructive than the First?

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Max Egremont is a historian, biographer and novelist. He studied modern history at Christ Church, Oxford. He is the official biographer of Siegfried Sassoon. His other books include Some Desperate Glory: the First World War the Poets Knew, Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia and biographies of Arthur Balfour and Major General Sir Edward Spears. He has also published four novels.

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Verlag
Quarto Publishing Plc
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1911187953
ISBN 13 
9781911187950
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Anzahl der Seiten
128
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