Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War I

by Michael S. Neiberg

Book Overview

The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an explosion of passion that would rip the continent apart. But in a crucial reexamination of the outbreak of violence, Michael S. Neiberg shows that ordinary Europeans, unlike their political and military leaders, neither wanted nor expected war during the fateful summer of 1914. By training his eye...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067472593X
• ISBN13: 9780674725935
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"