An Improbable War?

Zusatztext

<p> The First World War has been described as the "primordial catastrophe of the twentieth century." Arguably, Italian Fascism, German National Socialism and Soviet Leninism and Stalinism would not have emerged without the cultural and political shock of World War I. The question why this catastrophe happened therefore preoccupies historians to this day. The focus of this volume is not on the consequences, but rather on the connection between the Great War and the long 19th century, the short- and long-term causes of World War I. This approach results in the questioning of many received ideas about the war's causes, especially the notion of "inevitability."</p>

Autorenportrait

<p><b>David Stevenson</b> is Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He specializes in the history of international relations in Europe since c.1900, with particular reference to the World War I. His recent publications include<i>Armaments and the Coming of War: Europe, 1904-1914</i> (Oxford, 1996),<i>Cataclysm: The First World War as Political Tragedy</i> (New York, 2004) amd<em><span>With Our Backs to the Wall: Victory and Defeat in 1918</span></em><span> (Allen Lane, 2011)</span></p>

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