An Improbable War?: The Outbreak of World War I and European Political Culture Before 1914

by D. Stevenson and Holger Afflerbach

Book Overview

The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0857453106
• ISBN13: 9780857453105
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"