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In August 1914, the European powers plunged the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society, uproot ancient political systems and set the world on course for the bloodiest century in human history.
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, Ham takes the reader on a journey into the labyrinth, to reveal the complexity, the layered motives, the flawed and disturbed minds that drove the world to war. What emerges is a clear sense of what happened and why. 'To understand the past,' Ham concludes, 'and share that understanding, is the chief role of the historian. To understand the past is to liberate ourselves from its awful shadow and steel ourselves against it happening again.'
On the eve of the 100th anniversary of that terrible year, Ham takes the reader on a journey into the labyrinth, to reveal the complexity, the layered motives, the flawed and disturbed minds that drove the world to war. What emerges is a clear sense of what happened and why. 'To understand the past,' Ham concludes, 'and share that understanding, is the chief role of the historian. To understand the past is to liberate ourselves from its awful shadow and steel ourselves against it happening again.'
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Paul Ham describes his account of the year the First World War began as 'a straightforward narrative history that exhumes the causes of the war through the accumulation of events, actions and attitudes that led to it'. Ham explains the complexities of Europe as its leaders moved - deliberately in his view - towards war, sometimes stepping aside to consider the ways in which the world was ending for contemporaries, and finishing, with the year, in the trenches of the Western Front.
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A searing indictment of the rationale behind the FIrst World War and a shocking portrayal of what might have been
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 0857523465
- ISBN 13 9780857523464
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages736
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