Europe's last summer: who started the Great War in 1914?
Guerre, Première Guerre mondiale
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Résumé
When war broke out in Europe in 1914, it surprised a European population enjoying the most beautiful summer in memory. For nearly a century since, historians have debated the causes of the war. Some have cited the assassination of Archduke… Franz Ferdinand; others have concluded it was unavoidable. In this book Fromkin provides a different answer: hostilities were commenced deliberately. In a re-creation of the run-up to war, Fromkin shows how German generals, seeing war as inevitable, manipulated events to precipitate a conflict waged on their own terms. 2005.