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The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War

@inproceedings{Macmillan2013TheWT,
  title={The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War},
  author={M. Macmillan},
  year={2013}
}
WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014 Longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2013 The First World War followed a period of sustained peace in Europe during which people talked with confidence of prosperity, progress and hope. But in 1914, Europe walked into a catastrophic conflict which killed millions of its men, bled its economies dry, shook empires and societies to pieces, and fatally undermined Europe's dominance of the world. It was a war… Expand
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