During the years leading up to 1914, Europe’s upper classes, the landowning aristocracy and the industrial-financial bourgeoisie, had lived through years of almost intolerable tension. Obsessed by the ...
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How Europe’s Misjudgments in 1914 Opened the Road to World War I
The summer of 1914 was a cascade of hesitation, fear, and miscalculation. This episode reveals how anti-war protests in ...
Lawmakers split after viewing boat strike video: Democrat calls it 'one of the most troubling things I've seen' Is It Safe To ...
Next summer marks 100 years since the outbreak of World War I, and Catastrophe 1914, by the prolific British military historian Max Hastings, is only the first of several significant histories ...
CATASTROPHE 1914: EUROPE GOES TO WAR By Max Hastings Alfred A. Knopf, $35, 640 pages If you are as alarmed as I am over how the world’s political leadership — especially our own — seems to be a parade ...
ON the fourteenth of July I was in Paris, and curiosity took me to the grand review, held every year in the French capital on that day of national festival which commemorates the taking of the ...
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