Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?
by:
David Fromkin (author)
Alan Sklar (author)
Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9780786186792 (0786186798)
Publish date: May 1st 2004
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Edition language: English
Quite good but ends a little short. I would have wanted a little more insight and a little less historians have found this and this, others this and that. He doesn't really take a stand. Which is a little annoying for me.
This book disabuses one of the notions that WWI, The Great War, arrived unexpectedly. There were many factors at work, much politicking. In essence it was begun by Germany, which wanted to disrupt the growth of Russia as a threat and seize as much power and territory as possible while it still was i...