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Guilty as charged.(Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?)(Book Review)
David Fromkin Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914? Alfred A. Knopf, 349 pages, $26.95
I write you under the black cloud of portentous events on this side of the world, horrible, unspeakable, iniquitous things--I mean horrors of war criminally, infamously precipitated.--Henry, James, August 6, 1914
Who started the Great War in 1914? David Fromkin's excellent new book wants to put the question to rest. This work, from the author of the bestselling A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989), makes three important claims, aimed at a general audience, about the lead-up to the ...
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