The Month That Changed the World: July 1914 and Wwi

by Gordon Martel

Book Overview

On 28 June 1914 the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in the Balkans. Five fateful weeks later the Great Powers of Europe were at war.

Much time and ink has been spent ever since trying to identify the "guilty" person or state responsible, or alternatively attempting to explain the underlying forces that 'inevitably' led to war in 1914. Unsatisfied with these explanations, Gordon Martel now goes back to the contemporary diplomatic,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199665389
• ISBN13: 9780199665389
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"