TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacMillan,Margaret
TI  - The war that ended peace : how Europe abandoned peace for the First World War
SN  - 9781846682735
AV  - D 511 M167w 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Profile Books
KW  - 20150700
KW  - Guerra Mundial I, 1914-1918
KW  - Causas
KW  - World War, 1914-1918
KW  - Causes
N1  - 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; Includes bibliographical references (p. 636 - 654) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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