Europe on the Brink, 1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe on the Brink, 1914 write by John E. Moser. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Europe on the Brink, 1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 by a Serbian nationalist has set off a crisis in Europe. Since the Congress of Vienna in 1815, peace had largely prevailed among the Great Powers, preserved through international conferences and a delicate balance of power. Now, however, interlocking alliances are threatening to plunge Europe into war, as Austria-Hungry is threatening war against Serbia. Germany is allied with Austria-Hungary, while Russia views itself as the protector of Serbia. Britain is torn between fear of a German victory and a Russian one. France supports Russia but also needs Britain on its side. Can war be avoided one more time? Europe on the Brink plunges students into the July Crisis as representatives of the European powers. What choices will they make?
July Crisis
July Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook July Crisis write by T. G. Otte. This book was released on 2014-06-05. July Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A definitive new account of the catalytic events of July 1914 that led to the outbreak of the First World War.
Europe's Last Summer
Europe's Last Summer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Europe's Last Summer write by David Fromkin. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Europe's Last Summer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Sleepwalkers
The Sleepwalkers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sleepwalkers write by Christopher Clark. This book was released on 2013-03-19. The Sleepwalkers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A monumental new volume. . . . Revelatory, even revolutionary. . . . Clark has done a masterful job explaining the inexplicable.” — Boston Globe One of The New York Times Book Review’s 10 Best Books of the Year • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History) Historian Christopher Clark’s riveting account of the explosive beginnings of World War I. Drawing on new scholarship, Clark offers a fresh look at World War I, focusing not on the battles and atrocities of the war itself, but on the complex events and relationships that led a group of well-meaning leaders into brutal conflict. Clark traces the paths to war in a minute-by-minute, action-packed narrative that cuts between the key decision centers in Vienna, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Paris, London, and Belgrade, and examines the decades of history that informed the events of 1914 and details the mutual misunderstandings and unintended signals that drove the crisis forward in a few short weeks. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, The Sleepwalkers is a dramatic and authoritative chronicle of Europe’s descent into a war that tore the world apart.
Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914
Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914 write by Christopher John Bartlett. This book was released on 1996-10-02. Peace, War and the European Powers, 1814–1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The causes of war have tended to attract more attention than the causes of peace, yet the two are intimately related, Indeed there was much talk of war during the unprecedentedly long periods of peace between the European great powers in the years 1815-1854 and again in 1871-1914, the Near Eastern crises of 1878 and 1887-8 being only two of the more notable examples. In the case of the latter, there occurred a spell of fatalistic and belligerent talk in both Berlin and Vienna which in many ways anticipated that which gripped those capitals by 1914. A study of the whole question of the best methods by which to defend and advance the national interest is often more illuminating on why wars were avoided that are studies of the documentation surrounding the Holy Alliance, the congress system or the Concert of Europe. It is clear that the Concert tended to become most active only after a war had already been fought, or when the powers had already decided that conflict was likely to prove too costly, dangerous and unpredicatable in its effects both at home and abroad. Thus the Russians twice advanced almost to the gates of Constantinople only to recoil at the implications of trying to obtain control of the Straits. Similarly, Habsburg thoughts of war were frequently neutralised by reminders of financial weakness. This valuable book will be welcomed by anyone wishing to understand the nature of European state relations in the nineteenth century. Professor Bartlett examines why major wars did happen and did not happen, with particular attention being paid to the events of 1914.
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