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Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War
Catastrophe 1914 Europe Goes to War
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Nineteen fourteen was a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine guns. What followed were the costliest days of the entire war. But how had it happened? — In Catast... more », Max Hastings, best-selling author of the acclaimed All Hell Let Loose, answers at last how World War I could ever have begun.
Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St. Petersberg, from Kings to corporals, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles -- not the stalemates of later trench-warfare but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a newly industrialised age. A searing analysis of the power brokering, vanity and bluff in the diplomatic maelstrom reveals who was responsible for the birth of this catastrophic world in arms. Mingling the experiences of humbler folk with the statesmen on whom their lives depended, Hastings asks: whose actions were justified? From the outbreak of war through to its terrible making and the bloody gambles in Sarajevo and Mons, Le Cateau, Marne and Tannenberg, this is the international story of World War I in its most severe and influential period.
Published to coincide with its 100th Anniversary, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 explains how and why this war, which shattered and changed the Western world for ever, was fought.
Author:
Nineteen fourteen was a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine guns. What followed were the costliest days of the entire war. But how had it happened? — In Catast... more », Max Hastings, best-selling author of the acclaimed All Hell Let Loose, answers at last how World War I could ever have begun.
Ranging across Europe, from Paris to St. Petersberg, from Kings to corporals, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 traces how tensions across the continent kindled into a blaze of battles -- not the stalemates of later trench-warfare but battles of movement and dash where Napoleonic tactics met with weapons from a newly industrialised age. A searing analysis of the power brokering, vanity and bluff in the diplomatic maelstrom reveals who was responsible for the birth of this catastrophic world in arms. Mingling the experiences of humbler folk with the statesmen on whom their lives depended, Hastings asks: whose actions were justified? From the outbreak of war through to its terrible making and the bloody gambles in Sarajevo and Mons, Le Cateau, Marne and Tannenberg, this is the international story of World War I in its most severe and influential period.
Published to coincide with its 100th Anniversary, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 explains how and why this war, which shattered and changed the Western world for ever, was fought.
ISBN-13: 9780307597052
ISBN-10: 0307597059
Publication Date: 9/24/2013
Pages: 640
Rating: 1
ISBN-10: 0307597059
Publication Date: 9/24/2013
Pages: 640
Rating: 1
3.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Audio CD
Members Wishing: 5
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Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Audio CD
Members Wishing: 5
Reviews: Amazon | Write a Review
Genres:
- History >> Europe >> General
- History >> Europe >> Germany
- History >> Military >> World War I
- History >> World >> 20th Century
- History >> Modern (16th-21st Centuries) >> 20th Century
