MacMillan, Margaret,  1943- <br/><br/>
The war that ended peace : how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War / 
Margaret MacMillan 
 - London :  Profile Books,  2014 
 - xxxi, 699 p. :  ill. ;  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> Long-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2014 and long-listed for BBC Four Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013.  Originally published in the United States as: The war that ended peace : the road to 1914. New York : Random House, 2013.  Previously published in Great Britain in 2013. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 636 - 654) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : War or peace? --  Europe in 1900 --  Great Britain and splendid isolation --  'Woe to the country that has a child for king!' : Wilhelm II and Germany --  Weltpolitik : Germany's place on the world stage --  Dreadnought : the Anglo-German naval rivalry --  Unlikely friends : the Entente Cordiale between France and Britain --  The bear and the whale : Russia and Great Britain --  The loyalty of the Nibelungs : the dual alliance of Austria-Hungary and Germany --  What were they thinking? : hopes, fears, ideas, and unspoken assumptions --  Dreaming of peace --  Thinking about war --  Making the plans --  The crises start : Germany, France, and Morocco --  The Bosnian crisis : confrontation between Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Balkans --  1911 : the year of discords : Morocco again --  The first Balkan wars --  Preparing for war or peace : Europe's last months of peace --  Assassination at Sarajevo --  The end of the concert of Europe : Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia --  Turning out the lights : Europe's last week of peace --  Epilogue : war. 
<br/><br/> Why, after a century of extraordinary progress, did Europe march into a conflict which killed missions of its men, bled its economies dry, left three empires in rubble, and fatally undermined its dominance of the world? In [this book], ... historian Margaret MacMillan sketches the vast transformations which Europe underwent in the years before the Great War and brings to life the key individuals to provide a definitive account of how a peaceful continent descended into a chaos that was far from inevitable 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781846682735 1846682738 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>20150700<br/>Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918--Causas.<br/>World War, 1914-1918--Causes.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>D 511  / M167w 2014