The lost history of 1914 : reconsidering the year the great war began / Jack Beatty.
Title:
The lost history of 1914 : reconsidering the year the great war began / Jack Beatty.
ISBN:
9780802778116
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Walker & Co., 2012.
Physical Description:
392 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Germany : saber rule -- Russia : sea of tears -- England : Ulster will fight -- The United States and Mexico : the president and the bandit -- Austria-Hungary : Franz Ferdinand lives : a counterfactual -- France : the wages of imperialism -- The victory of the spade -- Home fronts I -- Home fronts II.
Summary:
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.
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn733231465
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
