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In Europe’s Last Summer, historian David Fromkin challenges conventional explanations of World War I’s outbreak. Drawing on the latest scholarship, he shows that July and August 1914 were shaped by two interconnected conflicts whose management pulled European powers into a war that would define the twentieth century. Fromkin argues that hostilities were deliberately initiated, that diplomacy was fated to fail, and that the conflict had long‑term consequences that reverberated into the twenty‑first century.
First publish date: 2004
Genre: History/Military History
Authors: David Fromkin
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