The Generation of 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 The Generation of 1914 write by Robert WOHL. This book was released on 2009-06-30. The Generation of 1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the generation of French, German, English, Spanish, and Italian young men who fought in World War I.
July 1914
July 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 July 1914 write by Sean McMeekin. This book was released on 2014-04-29. July 1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When a Serbian-backed assassin gunned down Archduke Franz Ferdinand in late June 1914, the world seemed unmoved. Even Ferdinand's own uncle, Franz Josef I, was notably ambivalent about the death of the Hapsburg heir, saying simply, "It is God's will." Certainly, there was nothing to suggest that the episode would lead to conflict -- much less a world war of such massive and horrific proportions that it would fundamentally reshape the course of human events. As acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin reveals in July 1914, World War I might have been avoided entirely had it not been for a small group of statesmen who, in the month after the assassination, plotted to use Ferdinand's murder as the trigger for a long-awaited showdown in Europe. The primary culprits, moreover, have long escaped blame. While most accounts of the war's outbreak place the bulk of responsibility on German and Austro-Hungarian militarism, McMeekin draws on surprising new evidence from archives across Europe to show that the worst offenders were actually to be found in Russia and France, whose belligerence and duplicity ensured that war was inevitable. Whether they plotted for war or rode the whirlwind nearly blind, each of the men involved -- from Austrian Foreign Minister Leopold von Berchtold and German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov and French president Raymond Poincaré- sought to capitalize on the fallout from Ferdinand's murder, unwittingly leading Europe toward the greatest cataclysm it had ever seen. A revolutionary account of the genesis of World War I, July 1914 tells the gripping story of Europe's countdown to war from the bloody opening act on June 28th to Britain's final plunge on August 4th, showing how a single month -- and a handful of men -- changed the course of 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.
The Lost History of 1914
The Lost History of 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 The Lost History of 1914 write by Jack Beatty. This book was released on 2015-02-03. The Lost History of 1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Challenges beliefs that World War I was inevitable, documenting largely forgotten events in each of the warring countries to reveal how several factors may have prevented the war or caused a different outcome.
1914-1918
1914-1918 - 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 1914-1918 write by David Stevenson. This book was released on 2012. 1914-1918 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Account of the major events of the First World War.
