A riveting narrative of a crucial time in twentieth century history.
David Fromkin is Professor of International Relations, History, and Law at Boston University. He is the author of In the Time of the Americans and A Peace to End All Peace, which was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
He has a gift for seeing the whole world and for packing
complicated material into a few boldly stroked sentences
*New York Times*
Fromkin gives some excellent pen portraits of the principals and
uses quotations to deadly effect
*Sunday Times*
A crisp, lively, day-by-day account of that fateful summer... This
book, both decisive and nuanced, is as convincing as it is
appalling
*Foreign Affairs*
An absorbing history of WWI's origins... Superb
*Newsweek*
An enormously impressive book, a popular history brimming with
fresh scholarship
*Weekly Standard*
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