The First Calamity
Christopher Clark: July, 1914, 29 August 2013
The War That Ended Peace
by Margaret MacMillan.
Profile, 656 pp., £25, October 2013,978 1 84668 272 8 Show More
by Margaret MacMillan.
Profile, 656 pp., £25, October 2013,
July 1914: Countdown to War
by Sean McMeekin.
Icon, 461 pp., £25, July 2013,978 1 84831 593 8 Show More
by Sean McMeekin.
Icon, 461 pp., £25, July 2013,
“... and shocks to the international system. Margaret MacMillan’s The War That Ended Peace and Sean McMeekin’s July 1914 both bear the imprint of these perspectival shifts. They are both attentive to the play of contingency in crises that involved multilateral interactions among numerous sovereign actors. They both have interesting things to say ... ”